North Yorkshire Police asked for CRO’s assistance in finding someone about whose welfare concern had been expressed and who was understood to be at Malham Cove. Team members gathered in Malham car park to await a briefing, but then NYP officers found the misper in Malham village, safe but very wet, in the heaviest rain for months.
As the team vehicles headed back to Clapham, several members who live in Ribblesdale set off to return home ‘over the tops’. Unfortunately, near Capon Hall, they found a car diagonally across the road, one wheel through the wall, one wheel half a metre in the air and only two actually in contact with tarmac. After a bit of head-scratching it was concluded that the car was tilted too precariously to be moved safely by human effort alone and, as no-one had been injured, CRO had no role to assist further. Members turned back to Malham and home via Settle, while a helpful resident offered the driver the use of the telephone at his house to arrange recovery of the car.
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