Rescue team and air ambulance scrambled

Buxton’s Mountain Rescue volunteers were called to Teggs Nose after bank holiday walkers were injured.

Many of the paths in the country park had been made dangerous by the heavy rain – which caused a 45 year-old lady from Siddington to fall. The rescue team joined North West Ambulance Service and the air ambulance to airlift the patient.

A spokesperson said: “Paramedics from North West Ambulance Service and the North West Air-ambulance were first on scene to treat her leg injury but required assistance to transfer the casualty from the scene to the aircraft waiting on level ground at Clough Farm.

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Before the aircraft could lift off a second call for the mountain rescue was received, this time to the Dane Valley.

The team already on callout joined additional volunteers at Dane Bridge Buxton MRT added: “The location of the accident site meant a walk in of over a kilometre for members with the equipment but quickly rendezvoused with ambulance paramedics already treating the casualty.

A fifty-two year old lady from Middlewich, had slipped on the muddy path and sustained a suspected fractured ankle injury. Following medical treatment the lady was placed on a rescue stretcher for a carry-out to the waiting ambulance and onward transport to Macclesfield hospital.