Low Leg Injury on Gowbarrow Fell
A team vehicle above Ullswater. A general photograph — not taken at this callout.
Home / Incidents / Callout 2024_052 · 20 July 2024
Callout 2024_052
Injured walker
Cumbria Police tasked the Team to attena a young man who had slipped on a loose section of the balcony path and fallen down the bank sustaining a debilitating lower leg injury. The Team assessed the injury, gave pain relief and splinted his lower leg prior to stretchering from the fell.
The callout in numbers
10
Team members
4½
Hours on the hill
52
Callout of the year
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Cumbria Police.
With thanks to Cumbria Police.
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