Incident report

Fifteen members of Buxton Mountain Rescue Team attended another snow related incident at 08:54 on Thursday 8^th March. The volunteer team members were called to assist East Midlands Ambulance Service and Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service with a motorist who had sustained a leg injury in a road traffic collision. The incident occurred in icy conditions on the steep Sparrowpit to Chapel-en-le-Frith road near the village of Bagshaw.
The injured man was extricated by the fire service and strapped into an insulated vacuum mattress and casualty bag on a mountain rescue stretcher. Team members, wearing spikes on their boots, carried the injured driver down the slippery road to a waiting ambulance near the bottom of the hill. He was then taken to hospital for further assessment and treatment.