Millers Dale
- Call out for year: 47
- Date: 11/08/14
- Time: 2:49 pm
- Grid ref: SK 135 732
- Type of incident: Mountain Biker Injured(1)
- Team members involved: 15
- Time taken: 1
- Total man hours: 15
Incident report
Buxton Mountain Rescue Team called to assist the Derbyshire, Leicestershire & Rutland air-ambulance just 300 metres north of the
old station on the Monsal Cycle-way. A Lady on holiday from Norfolk had fallen from her hired cycle and sustained a serious, open fracture of her wrist.
Aircraft paramedics treated the lady’s injuries before she was placed on a mountain rescue stretcher. The steep limestone sides of Millers Dale meant that the aircraft had had to land in a field over half a kilometre away. Team members carried the stretcher uphill to the waiting aircraft in which she was taken to a Chesterfield hospital for further treatment.
One comment
Dear Buxton Mountain Rescue Team
I would like to send a gigantic THANK YOU to all of you from here in Norfolk. I can remember falling really badly and being in excruciating pain until you arrived (although you only took 20 minutes!). Since then, I felt I was in the best possible hands. I don’t think I could have dreamt, even with all the morphine and ketamine (!), of a better team.
After a 6 1/2 hour operation and three days in hospital I am on the road to recovery. Thanks a lot for the magnificent work you did as well as for all your kindness and humour. I will of course take the opportunity to send you a donation.
With my very best wishes to all of you
Cristina