Incident report

Buxton Mountain Rescue Team called to assist East Midlands Ambulance Service following a report of a lady having slipped and injured her leg in Shooters Clough above the Goyt Valley.

Shooters Clough is a remote area but on arrival in the Goyt the team was relieved to learn that the casualty was actually near to Errwood Hall, much closer the road than first thought!  An ambulance paramedic was first on scene to commence first aid whilst team members made their way up hill with a stretcher other medical kit.

The lady was part of a walking group from Oxfordshire and was on a Holiday Fellowship trip to the Peak District.  Her simple slip resulted in a suspected fractured ankle.  She was placed on a rescue stretcher and carried back down hill the where an ambulance was waiting to take her to a Macclesfield hospital.