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We took an urgent call from East Midlands Ambulance Service to assist a 64 year old male who had gone over his handlebars whilst mountain biking towards Barber Booth / Edale from Edale Cross. His location was towards the top of the Jacob’s Ladder track. He was reported as head injury and shoulder injury, with no further details.
Because of the potentially critical head injury, we deployed two KMRT in our first response party instead of waiting for the usual four. We knew that the casualty was relatively close to our vehicle drop off point at Edale Cross. Kinder 2 and Kinder 3 followed with our stretcher package.
As we approached, we could see that the casualty was sat on the grassy bank, being looked after by three passing nurses and another walker. Our thanks to them for doing a really important job providing some pain relief and reassurance before we arrived.
We assessed his condition and fortunately, it was not as bad as we first feared. He did not appear to have a significant head injury. However, he did have what looked like a dislocated shoulder and also a broken/dislocated elbow. As we arrived, we could see him moving his head and body as he sat. On assessment by our team doctor, he showed no signs of spinal injury, even though this was a risk from the mechanism of injury.
The gentleman was extremely stoical and insisted on walking up the track to our Landrovers, rather than using our stretcher. Our paramedic gave him additional pain relief for the bumpy Landrover drive down to base, where he was transferred to the waiting EMAS ambulance.
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– Time: 14:00
– Type: Mountain Incident
– Location: Jacob’s Ladder, Kinder Scout
– Team members: 16
– Duration: 3.2 Hours
– Volunteer hours on this incident: 51.2 hours
– Total callout hours in 2025: 3606.7 hours