Doxey’s Pool, the Roaches
Call out for year: 48
Date: 6/10/09
Time: 3:33 pm
Grid ref: SK 0012 6329
Type of incident: Walker, Injured, (1)
Number of team members involved: 12
Time taken: 2.5 hours
Total man hours: 30
Poor weather and reduced visibility prevented an air-ambulance attending this incident on the Roaches. The team was called to rendezvous at Roach End to assist a 34 year old male walker who had slipped an
d sustained a lower leg injury near Doxey’s Pool on the Roaches ridge. Ambulance paramedics were first to arrive and treated the casualty who was then loaded onto a mountain rescue stretcher. Wind and low cloud hampered the 1.5 kilometre carry off to a waiting ambulance which then transferred the man to North Staffordshire Hospital.
Photo: Low cloud and rain hamper the carry off.
Comments from The Area North Manager, West Midlands Ambulance Service.
Hello to all the brillant Buxton Mountain Rescue Team,
I hope you will not mind if I send you these photographs of the outstanding work you all did to rescue the 34 year old gentleman with the ankle injury, thank god that there are people like you around, thank you so much.