Vehicle down embankment
A team vehicle above Ullswater. A general photograph — not taken at this callout.
Home / Incidents / Callout 68 · 25 August 2025
Callout 68
Medical emergency
On Monday 25th August at 18:23rd the team received their 3rd job of the bank holiday weekend. North West Ambulance Service requested assistance with extracting a number of casualties from the scene of an RTC in Martindale. A vehicle had left the road and ended up around 80ft down an embankment. On arrival the team assisted the Air Ambulance medics with packaging and carrying one casualty to their helicopter and he was flown to hospital for further treatment. This was a Multi Agency incident where the team worked alongside NWAS, Cumbria Fire and Rescue, Cumbria Police and the Great North Air Ambulance.
18 Team Members attended the incident which took 3 hours to complete.
The callout in numbers
18
Team members
3
Hours on the hill
68
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