Cut-thorn, A54
- Call out for year: 42
- Date: 10/08/12
- Time: 4:00 pm
- Grid ref:
- Type of incident: Non mountain (Ambulance) Injured(1)
- Team members involved: 9
- Time taken: 21 mins
- Total man hours: 3 hrs 9 mins
Incident report
On Friday afternoon the team was called to Cut-thorn Farm, just off the A54 Buxton – Congleton Road.
An 18 year old male from Goostry, Cheshire, fell whilst rope swinging in the River Dane and sustained a suspected spinal injury.
The team was stood down en-route when it became apparent that the ambulance service had managed to get the casualty airlifted to hospital.