A walker (f, 54) slipped and heard a loud crack from her ankle while walking the return path of the Waterfalls Trail through the Baxengill Gorge, Ingleton. Her husband reported the suspected ankle fracture to North Yorkshire Police, who called CRO. Having assessed the injury, team members gave pain relief, splinted the injured leg then carried the casualty on a wheeled stretcher to the team Land Rover. This took casualty…
A visitor (m, 77) with a known heart condition experienced chest pain on reaching the top of the stairs into the Battlefield Chamber, the most remote part of the show cave. Use of the medication he carried with him had no effect so the cave manager asked North Yorkshire Police to call CRO. Team members administered oxygen, which relieved the patient’s pain almost totally, but his pulse was very irregular…
A walker (m, 62) phoned North Yorkshire Police and asked for Mountain Rescue after he had slipped, just a short distance from the summit of Ingleborough, having ascended from Ingleton. He believed that he had broken an ankle and said he was unable to walk unaided. CRO 4, the Honda Pioneer ATV, took two members and initial equipment as far up the path as was safe then returned to the…
A mountain biker (m, 58), descending a track at speed, was thrown over the bike’s handlebars into a wooded area and hit a tree before coming to earth. Bowland Pennine MRT and the North West Air Ambulance set off to deal with the incident but with many members on holiday BPMRT found themselves short-handed and asked CRO to assist. The first BPMRT member to arrive began assessing the patient, but…
