Hip injury, Dovedale
A team vehicle above Ullswater. A general photograph — not taken at this callout.
Home / Incidents / Callout 2022_039 · 29 May 2022
Callout 2022_039
Injured walker
On Sunday 30/05/22 Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team was called out to an incident where a woman had fallen, injuring her hip. The team located the casualty on the bank of the shallow Dovedale Beck behind Hartsop Hall. The casualty had been in the river building a dam with her grand children when she had slipped and fallen.
She had injured her hip in the process and was unable to walk. The team stabilised the hip injury and then transported the lady in the team Landrover to the Patterdale base where she was handed over to a land ambulance crew for onward travel to hospital. The rescue lasted 2.5 hrs and involved 12 team members.
The callout in numbers
12
Team members
2½
Hours on the hill
39
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