Incident report

Seventeen Buxton Mountain Rescue Team responded when called to Taddington Woods at the bottom of Taddington Dale near Ashford.  Derbyshire police had received a report of a 67 year man from Wakefield having slipped on the wet ground whilst walking with his wife.  The casualty had sustained minor lacerations to the head and an open fracture of a finger.

The man declined an ambulance but was carried by stretcher to White Lodge car-park from where his wife was able to transfer him to a hospital.

Photo credit:  Team members dealing with the casualty in Taddington Woods.