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Yorkshire sprawls across three million acres.

The biggest county in Britain.

(OVER RADIO) 98, go ahead.

One-eight, 18 minutes ETA.

All of it covered by the crews of its two dedicated air ambulances.

This job has two sides to it.

You fly around in a helicopter and you have the time of your life.

(RINGS)

(ALARM WAILS)

And then there's the flip side to it, where it's awfully stressful.

Let's go up and then visors down and pilot's briefed.Roger. Lifting.

We get sent to some pretty horrific things.

She's probably gonna need blood, to be fair.

(SCREAMS)Okay. There we go. That's it. We're done.

From the remote Dales...

Nine-nine. Over scene.

...to the rocky coast...

Pull!

...six million people depend on them.

Aaa-aaa-aah.

No job is ever the same. No people are ever the same.

Lift.

We see a lot of carnage on scene.

We see a lot of destruction and people's lives turned upside down.

Sorry, sorry, sorry.

From hardy locals hurt at work...

...to tourists trapped in the beautiful but hostile landscape.

(WHEEZING)

It does make you appreciate that life's for living.

This is life on the cutting edge of emergency medicine.

I couldn't imagine anything is gonna top being part of this team.

Look at that, Sam. A nice, round £9.

At the air ambulance headquarters...

dispatcher Dave is putting in an order for a Chinese takeaway.

Yeah, that's fine, mate. Are you taking it?

I will just ring it through at eight o'clock.

Well, before... before we forget, there's my tenner.

Paid.

Look at this. I made dinner for the children before I left them tonight.

Jake's not at home. I burnt my pie!

It was chicken, chicken and vegetables.

I have some here, if you want any.

(RINGS)

Hello.

Yorkshire's ambulance control room is on the line.

Horse has thrown him. Beckwithshaw. Yeah, got it. Leave it with me.

(OVER RADIO) Helimed 98.

The crew of Helmed 98 are already

high above North Yorkshire, flying back to base.

Just head towards...

the west of Harrogate, please, west of Harrogate.

Beckwithshaw. It's a male. Been thrown off a horse.

The horse has then landed on top of him.

It's Windmill Farm. Windmill Farm.

The crew are being diverted to Beckwithshaw,

a village 2.5 miles southwest of Harrogate.

What is the job?

Somebody's being thrown off a horse. The horse has landed on top of him.

Ah, right. Okay.

So it sounds like this is an actual stables.

Yeah, it's also trying to find which field they're lying in.

Horse-related incidents can be really serious. From head injuries

to crush injuries, from broken bones to minor injuries.

There's a lot of protective gear that horse riders can wear.

If not, they come off a lot worse, when a heavy horse lands on them.

There's the riding ring.

Oh, RV spotted. Yeah.

Where are we? 98 overhead.

Just coming in at 11:00 o'clock. Happy to land on the bit this end?

Er... Yeah. There's no horses there, is there?

Negative. No. The horses are away, by the looks of it.

So it's really important that all the horses are put away.

When we come down, we're noisy.

We have a downwash, so they can feel the breeze,

which makes them flighty and they can smash through fences.

If they're in the same paddock as us,

it makes it dangerous for the patient and for us.

It's rubber pellets, isn't it? Yeah.

How are we doing your side?

Can you put the cameras on? Yeah, you're all good.

Yeah. Cameras.

We're down. You're clear to go. Thank you.

Thank you. Roger.

Ah, a DCA, as well. That's good.

A land ambulance crew has started assessing the patient.

Okay, this is Joe. On a horse.

Chest pain, lower back pain, neck pain.

Hiya. Right, I just need to listen to your chest.

Good rise and fall? Yeah, I've not touched it.

If I touch it, he screams out in pain.Okey-doke.

Take some deep breaths for me.

Thank you.Just one more for me. (DEEP INHALE)

Difficult to hear, but it's equal both sides.Awesome.

34-year-old Joe was exercising the horse when he was thrown off.

So you said you're concerned about the C-spine.

Yeah. He's got central neck pain.

Lower neck pain. Lower back pain. Severe pain.

Pins and needles. Numbness down both legs.

He was complaining of pins and needles,

not being able to move his legs.

That's a massive red-flag symptom for someone with a spinal injury.

I've ridden her once. Okay.

She was just a bit funny and a bit "hmm".

Not really feeling it. Okay.

Then she started to rear, spin and whatnot and then,

in my infinite wisdom, that's what I think to do, I cling on.

And she went up and she went backwards and landed on my chest.

She landed right on your chest?

You're nodding your head there. Yeah?

Does that hurt? No.That doesn't hurt?No.

No.It's from my shoulders down to my chest.

From your shoulders down.

Let's finish our ABC. I was trying to.

Every time I touched his chest... Oh, it's too much.

It's so (BLEEP) sore.

Hence chest, first of all. Awesome.

Any abnormal sound I could hear.

Yeah.I'll touch you. I know it hurts.

I know, I know, I know.

Okay? Aaah! I can't.

Okay. Sorry, sorry, sorry.

All right.

The paramedics want to check whether Joe has

any sensation in his lower legs.

Yeah, always helps to take his boots off, as well.

Cut these off and I'll kill ya!

Oh! (LAUGHS) Are they expensive?Yes!

Urghh. How much? More than £100?

They were £400.

Four hundred? Yes.Oh, my...

What do they do for £400?

Look pretty. Okay!

There's a clip on the back of it, mate.

Click that off.Oh, yeah. And the rest of it...

That's it. There we go. Thank you.

So, is any leg different to the other? Are they both the same?

They both just feel numb. Feel numb.

Completely numb.

Could you raise them?

I can't even lift the left one.

If you can't feel your legs, we've got to go to Leeds.

Because there's a deficit. Okay?

It hurts even to try. It's just because it...

Pardon?It hurts even to try.Well, hopefully we'll get on top of that.

They're giving him morphine for the pain.

It feels like something smashed into my lungs.

Yeah.Yeah. It did. A great big horse!

It hurts. Yeah. (LAUGHS)

Don't make me laugh, please. Stop it.

Since you've had a bit of that morphine, how's that pain?

Not changing. It's not changed, at all?

No. No. That's fine.

If you'd stop making me laugh, it would help.

Sorry. (LAUGHS) Urghh.

Which is worse, chest or back?

Chest. The chest pain is worse.

His mum.

Isn't it amazing how mums make you cry more?Hiya.

Oh, you can't start crying now. Oh, dear.

Here, Mum, do you want to come and sit down?

Shall we get him onboard and then reassess him?

Yeah.And see what... We can go from there.

Off the floor and being a bit warmer.Yeah.

The team immobilise Joe using a Kendrick Extrication device.

He can then be lifted into the land ambulance for a full assessment.

So we used a Kendrick on this patient. It just means,

because of the position he was in, we could keep his back straight

without having to move him too much,

without having to rotate his neck to get him off the floor.

It was a lot easier for us.

Ready. Steady. Urghh.

(HOWLS)

(BLEEP)

Brilliant.

Ready? Urghh.

Urghh!

Is it here?

It's, like, here.

Might be the sternum. I think, yeah, definitely.

Yeah.Joe, any pain in your ribs? Yes!

Any pain in your legs here? No.

Any pain here? No.

They just feel numb. Okay.

Okay. Can you move your big toe for me?

Well done. Can you raise your legs?

Or bend them?Yeah, bend them at the knees for me.

How's your pain at the moment?

Pretty shit. Okay.

Are you allowed to swear in front of your mum?Sorry?

Are you allowed to swear in front of your mum?Yeah.Are you?

I still get told off now. Do you?Yeah.

I'm just gonna put some paracetamol up.

You haven't had any in the last four hours, have you? Not allergic?

Anything like that? It just helps the morphine, as well.

Sorry I swore. No, no, don't worry.

Have you always been interested in horses?

My entire life.Four and a half, when he first got onto a horse.Wow.

That's expensive. Did you not try and push him somewhere else?

Somewhere cheaper! (LAUGHS)

Right, are you comfortable? Yeah.

I think you'll get going in a minute.

Just been so many of us here. We all know different bits of the story.

All just catching up now.

That's great. I just can't thank you enough.

That's all right.Thank you so much. All right. See you later.

Bye. Bye.Thank you.

Bye, Joe.

Joe will go to hospital by road,

freeing up the air ambulance for other emergencies.

Paramedics Tom and Sam are preparing the helicopter for the day ahead.

I'm just mopping, because it's a bit muddy.

I think it was wet yesterday.

So the crew have lots of muddy jobs. At the end of the day,

the last thing you want to do is start mopping.

It generally gets left for us to do at the beginning of the day.

That'll do.

On the Air Desk, a call is coming in from South Yorkshire.

(OVER PHONE) It's an open fracture, is it?Yeah.

A 12-year-old boy has come off a motorbike.

Job. (ALARM WAILS)

Lights on. iPad stowed. This is Air Stretcher.

The team are heading for Grimethorpe,

a former coal-mining village near Barnsley.

Tom?

A 13-year-old male who has come off his motorbike.

The report is the motorbike is still on top of the patient.

It sounds as though he's got an open fracture to one of his legs.

Sounds sore.

An open fracture is when

there's a break in the bone and a break to the skin.

Complications of that will be that you could get an infection of

the bone, which is pretty bad for those patients.

There's also blood vessels and nerves there, so a loss of sensation

and they can bleed and, depending on which bone is broken

and how open it is, they can lose a lot of blood.

98 on overhead. Visual on scene.

98 finals.

I'll just go up to the far end, towards the intersection.

Be aware there's a load of kids...

Yeah. Visual. ...behind the helicopter.Behind?

Yeah, they're running... running up the hill directly.

Landed. Landed.

Hello.

What's his name? Regan.

Regan?Yeah. Any protective gear that he wears?Yeah, had a helmet.

Regan?What? My name... My name is Tom, mate.

All right? Yeah.So I know...

I know your leg hurts.

I need to make sure that you're not hurt anywhere else. Okay?

I'm all right. It's just my leg. Just your leg?Yeah.

Helmet on?Yeah. Just lost a bit of control?

Is that what happened? Yeah.

12-year-old Regan fractured his leg when he came off.

Paramedic Tom needs to straighten it,

but Regan will need some strong medication

before it can be attempted.

Take any medicines for anything?

No.Asthmatic? I just want paracetamol.

Oh, mate. Listen, mate, I'm gonna get you something for that.

I'm not gonna touch your leg at the moment.

We are going to have a look at it. I can feel the bone.

We need to get you something called gas and air.What's that?

You breathe it in. It's a medicine.It's good.

Will it stop me hurting? It's gonna take the edge off it.

Make it a bit better. Then, once we've got that on-board,

we'll have a look at putting a little needle in your arm.

We can give you some pain relief, as well.Aaa-aah!

You don't have to look at it. It's gonna hurt.It's not.

The needle might hurt a little bit,

but then we can give you something for your leg.

Then we're gonna put your leg in a brace to keep it nice and still.

Can we go to the hospital? We'll go to the hospital, mate.

Yeah. Don't you worry.

So once we've straightened his leg, we'll bandage up the wound,

where it's been opened, so we'll stop that bleeding.

Then we'll put it in what we call a vacuum splint,

which just secures the leg nice and still in the same position.

Because he's fractured his bones,

if we don't do that, those bones move and that causes him pain.

So, if we keep them together, nicely aligned, with that vacuum splint,

that reduces that pain, as well, so we don't have to give him

as much intravenous pain relief, because that leg is still.

We've got the gas and air here. Dad's gonna look after you.

Take some nice deep breaths. Dad is gonna coach you through it.

Are you ready? Good man. All right?

(GAS AND AIR HISSES) Ever seen Star Wars, Regan?

That's it. Yeah? Do a Darth Vader.

Give us your best Darth Vader impression, mate.

REGAN'S AUNT: He's come off his bike.

Erm... And I don't know if the bike has landed on him as he's fell.

And the next I knew, I'm being shouted,

"Regan's come off his bike. He's snapped his leg."

So I've come running over and, obviously,

I've had to take over t'phone call.

It's making me dizzy. That's all right.

You might seem a little bit dizzy, but that's all right.

It means it's working. Nothing is gonna happen, you're on the floor.

Keep going with that. No.

Keep going. Look at me. Look at me.

Close your eyes and do it, mate.

I feel like I'm like... What?..."What?"

Let's go for it.

Keep going. Yeah, keep going. Keep going? Yeah, yeah.

Regan, a sharp scratch in this arm.

You're doing well, mate. (SCREAMS)You're doing well.

Nearly there. Well done, mate.

We started treating him with some entonox, gas and air.

That settled him a little bit, but I was aware that

we were gonna have to pull his leg into alignment,

so I wanted to give him some stronger pain relief.

Regan, how are you doing? All right.

You're all right? Good lad.

How are you doing?

I'm all right. Mate, not as well as you.

Not as well as you. You're all right?Yeah.

Ask him if he's gonna look after your leg.

Are you gonna look after me? I am, mate.

I'm gonna give you something strong for that leg of yours.

Are we going to hospital soon?

Yes, mate, yeah. We'll sort your leg out first.

I actually love you. (CHUCKLES)

You're so sound, you.

Thanks, mate. You're my best friend.

Mr Orange. Mr Orange. Right.

Listen...I love you.Good. I'll put this up your nose. Don't eat it.

He was a real character.

A lovely lad and one who was very grateful that we were there.

I've never had a response like that,

when I've given patients drugs before, so, yeah, it was welcomed.

(CHUCKLES)

So this is gonna come across as rude, but it's not meant that way.

Apart from Dad being here,

I want everybody else to stand back and keep nice and quiet.

When we give this drug, we need to have happy thoughts.

Is he not allowed to come to hospital with me?He is, mate.

You're not going without me. He is.

Right, so we're gonna give you some drugs. They're really good drugs.

But you need to have nice, happy thoughts. All right?

What do you mean by "happy thoughts"?What makes you happy?

Motorbikes? My dad.

Think of your dad.

Once Tom has administered the ketamine,

he can attempt to straighten Regan's leg.

What we want him to be thinking about are nice, happy thoughts,

as we give him this drug, so he has a pleasant experience.

To do that, we'll make it nice and quiet. We'll move people away.

If it's loud, if it's noisy, he concentrates on that

and that can sometimes affect the way they respond to the drug

and not have a particularly nice experience of it.

Cornwall. Surfing. A nice beach. Crabbing.

Remember crabbing? That sounds amazing, doesn't it?

Yeah.Wait. Wait, wait, wait. I feel weird.You're all right.

No, no, no.It's all right. No, no. Listen...

Listen...You're doing really well. I'm gonna die!No, you're not.

He's not gonna die, is he? Think about that trip to Cornwall.

Think about that.

Crabbing, surfing. Crabbing.

Surfing.

Now the ketamine has kicked in, it's time to straighten Regan's leg.

You're doing really well, Dad. Just keep an eye on that.

Keep an eye on it for me, mate.

Grab that... Grab that splint. Grab that splint.

Aaah!

Aaah! Just leave it there for a second.

You're all right. You're all right.

You're all right.

You're all right.

Here we go.

You're all right, Regan.

Aaah. Ow! Ow! You're all right, mate.

Lower down. That's it. Perfect. Yeah, good. Yeah.

You're doing really well, Regan.

Aaah!You're all right, mate. We're nearly done.

You and Dad are doing really well.

You're amazing, mate.

A proper surfer.

Aaah! It's all right.

Regan, this is just gonna get tight on your leg, mate.

All right? A nice support.

Now that the leg has been straightened,

it needs to be put into a vacuum splint,

so it doesn't move on the way to the hospital.

Regan...Yeah? Can you feel me doing this?

Yeah.Yeah? Can you wriggle them for me?

Good man.Good lad. Good lad.That'll do for me.

All right.That'll do for me. That'll do for us.

Regan, how does your leg feel now, mate?

It's okay.It's all right? Yeah.

Well, listen, we haven't fixed it. Okay.We're going to the hospital.

The land ambulance crew have arrived to assist with Regan's care.

Hiya. Are you all right?

Shall we get the board behind him? Is that all right, guys? Regan?

Yeah?Listen, mate, we're gonna get you onto the helicopter. All right?

So, to do that, I need you just to roll over to the side. Okay?

Yes, G. Good man.

All right, off you go.

Aaah!You're all right. I've got it.Aaa-aah!

There we go. That's it.All done.

Ah-ah-ah. All done.Aaah!

Aaah! Put it down. Put it down.

Relax again.

That's it. On your side, if that's better.

All right. Take this again. Uh-uh-uh!

Breathe. Breathe, breathe, breathe.

That's it.

Regan, take two deep breaths of that and then I'm gonna take it off you.

Just while we get you to the helicopter.

All right, bro. Go on. Two breaths.

Ready? On lift. Ready, set, lift.

There you go. We'll go this way.

Bye, Poppy!

POPPY: Bye-bye! Bye!

Turn. Watch your head. See you.

Bye! Bye, Tommy!

There we go.

If we just push him a little bit further along here... Perfect.

Hello, mate. How are we doing? All right.Yeah?

Are you all right? I'm here. Look, I'm coming with you.

Your mum is meeting us there. Yeah.Ready for t'helicopter ride?

(BEEP) (INDISTINCT VOICE OVER RADIO)

Tail clear, yeah? Yeah, the tail is clear, mate.

Helipad in sight. We're en route.

Just to the right side of the tall, white tower.

98 finals.

98 landed.

How are you doing? You all right? Yeah, I'm good, mate, thanks.Good.

You're all right. You're all right.

So this is Regan. He's a 12-year-old boy.

He lost control of his motorbike when he was travelling at,

what he described as "a relatively high speed".

His injuries sustained, there's an open fracture

to his right lower tib and fib

and we've just noticed he's got a bit of a haematoma on his head.

Happy?Yeah. I'll get him booked in for you.

At the air ambulance headquarters,

dispatcher Andy is manning the air desk.

Hello. Job.

This is a job, a crew request for some critical-care support

for an elderly lady that's fallen off a ladder,

with an upper humerus fracture.

Andy is scrambling the crew of Helimed 99

from their base at RAF Topcliffe.

This is Air Stretcher. Closed and secure front right.

99 lifting.

They're flying 50 miles to the village of Rawmarsh near Rotherham.

So, Rob, can you tell me what job we're going to?A lady in her 80s,

with an open humeral fracture from a fall.

Almost a quarter of a million over-65s

are admitted to hospital every year after falling.

I have visual.

It's the other side.

We should be looking for the DCA.

Visual. Yeah.

I'll come over the wires, mate. I'll follow the line of the road.Roger.

99 now on finals.

All down.

99 landed.

Dr Rob and Max have been called in

by local paramedics needing critical-care support.

Got a lovely student here who is gonna have a chat with yous.

All right, I'm Rob. This is Max. Hiya. You all right?Hiya, mate.

We've got a 79-year-old female here.

She fell off the second step of the ladder.Right.

There could be a potential C-spine injury.

Query an open, right humerus fracture.

And she's got a degloving of her right leg. Erm...

All her observations are within... Covered it....a good, normal range.

She is GCS 15. GCS 15.

Any movement to that pillow and... She's not on any blood-thinners?

She's currently had 15 mg morphine,

4 mg of Ondansetron and she's had a gram of IV paracetamol.

Her obs have been fine since all that?Obs have been fine, yeah.

What's her name? Sorry. Sandra.

Hi, Sandra.Hello, lovey. Dr Anderson from the helicopter.

I've come to help you out and try and get you to hospital.

All right?Fabulous.Are you still in an awful lot of pain?

Yes, it's my arm. Yeah? Your right arm?

So when we first arrived on the scene,

I noticed it was hot, sunny

and Sandra was in a really awkward position in her front garden,

with injuries to her arm and leg, in an awful lot of pain.

We're gonna give you some really strong painkillers.

Makes you feel a bit woozy, but you're all right.Oh, goodie.

Sandra Danette hasn't fallen very far, but her injuries are serious.

Before they move her, she needs the stronger drugs

only carried by the air-ambulance crews.

We're gonna do that and then we'll get you on a stretcher.

You shouldn't remember anything else after that. All right?Thank you.

Sandra's husband, Harold, found her.

Hello.

She's got mononeuritis multiplex in this leg.

Ah, right. Okay.

It's nerve damage. Yeah.

So we're gonna give her some... a strong painkiller called ketamine.

Then we're gonna...

She should go quiet, but she might start shouting when we move her.

We'll try and put a splint on this arm, to keep it still

and then we'll get her out.

Well, she... She bought these bloody cheap ladders the other day.

She's just come out to clean t'windows

and there's no locking device on them.

She's come off 'em.

So she's still very, very active.

With willpower, she's got a little bit better,

but she has to walk about with sticks.

So we'll have a little bit of this medicine, Sandra,

and see how we're getting on.

Max is giving her ketamine, the strongest drug they carry.

Yeah, I can feel that. That's perfect.

That's exactly what we want. I feel very funny.Yeah.

Very funny, funny. You're doing really well.

Oh, yes.

I'm just wondering, if we have the scoop next to her

and we just sit her up, onto that step and slide her down.

Set her up this way, yeah. Yeah.And we'll get a splint on.

Are you OK, Sandra?

Good. Excellent.

The ketamine is taking effect and Sandra's pain is easing.

One of you come to this side.

Just help us sit her up slightly.

It seems to be working.

All I've got is her arm.

Right. We need to try and get that in and then sit her up, but...

Shall I just snip up that?

She doesn't like that.

Don't mention what you just did, it won't go well.That's fine.

Removing Sandra's jumper reveals a significant fracture.

I'll try and just get my hand under the fracture.

If you get under there, under the arm,

I'll get... I've got, I've got the elbow.

Ready. Steady. Lift.

Well done.

Well done, Sandra. You're doing really well.

I don't think it's open.

Sandra's fractured arm will be immobilised in a vacuum splint.

You're all right. Well done. Mind her...That's it.

With the arm secured,

the team can turn their attention to the serious injury to her leg.

I'll just straighten her leg. Yeah.Yeah.

The leg has been degloved, which means the skin and muscle

has been torn away from the bone beneath.

You're all right, Sandra.

(GROANS)

Ready, brace and lift.

Excellent.

(GROANS) Just got you here for a tick.

Ready to go down? Yeah? On the slide. Ready, steady. Slide.

Urghh. Perfect, that's enough.

Sandra? Are you all right, darling?

Not moving, so we'll just put it under, as a cushion, for now.

That dressing needs sorting. See if you can just fold it up a bit.

The immediate concern is the longer you lay there,

the hotter she's gonna get and the higher the risk of infection.

So we need to use our expertise

and skills to rapidly move her to hospital.

Lift that.

And just...

put that there.

Sandra?

Sandra, can you hear me?

(GROANS) Well done.

Pop that on there. I'll hold that down.Yeah.

There you go. Get that over.

Are you all right, Sandra?

Sandra, take a big breath in for me.

(BREATHES IN) That's worked. That's perfect.

Well done.

And again. (BREATHES IN)

Well done.

Can you open your eyes for me?

That's it. Nice, big breaths, in and out.

You're doing really well.

Okay. Thank you.

Sandra's breathing is growing shallow.

This is a bit of oxygen, Sandra.

Well done.

Okay. Ready. Brace.

Elbow in.

I've got this. Let go.

Okay. Just mind that... The oxygen.

Wires out of the way.

Are you all right, Sandra?

Take a big breath in for me again.

Well done. I want you to take nice, deep breaths. Okay?

We'll get you on the ambulance.

The side effects of morphine and ketamine working together,

it will, potentially, stop them breathing.

We keep a close eye on her respiratory rate.

We noticed that this was dropping

and Sandra was becoming more, a little bit more drowsy.

A couple of nice, big breaths in and out for us again.

I've got this side. You've got that side.

Okay? That's it. Yeah.

Sandra, take a big breath in for me again.

I'm gonna do some more checks. No pain here?

I'm gonna have a look at your chest.

Keep breathing in and out, if you can, sweetheart.

Sandra's respiratory rate is falling.

ROB: Air desk, medic one.

Go ahead.

ROB (ON RADIO): Yeah, we're gonna assist the crew

and escort this patient by road to the Northern General.

She's just dropped her resps slightly after the ketamine,

so we're gonna assist the crew and head in by road. Over.

(SIREN WAILS)

Sandra is 10 minutes from the hospital.

Max and Dr Rob will monitor her all the way.

The weather is nice. Probably gonna be busy.

So it's important we get everything...

...sorted, so we're good to go as soon as we're needed.

Just a full check of the aircraft.

Externally.

It's the pilot's responsibility to check it every morning.

So, yeah, I'm just about to put the stretcher in

and then we're ready for the day.

(AIR DESK PHONE RINGS)

On the air desk, dispatcher Dave is fielding calls.

Hello.

A cyclist has been found lying in the road with a head injury.

Cheers, Phil. Ta. Bye.

South Cave quarry.

(ALARM WAILS)Blood is coming out of his ear. Unresponsive.

Air desk, 98 lifting.

AIR DESK (OVER RADIO): Roger.

It's 33 miles to the village of South Cave

in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

(OVER RADIO) Ten minutes runtime. Is there any update from the scene?

DAVE (OVER RADIO): It sounds like he's come through some trees

at high speed, a shoulder injury, a head injury.

Knocked himself out. Neck pain, as well. And it's near a quarry.

But I think he's actually laid on the main road, at the moment.

A good cyclist, if you look at some of the speeds they get up to,

they can ride 40 miles an hour, 50 miles an hour, downhill,

erm, wearing Lycra.

Ultimately, it's... It's any blunt-force traumas, potentially.

Air desk, 98 finals.

Eighty cyclists are seriously injured

and two die every week on Britain's roads.

Air desk, 98 landed.

A lorry driver is waiting for the team.

He discovered the injured cyclist lying in the road

and made the 999 call.

'Ey up.

Hiya.I found him in the road. You just found him?

Yeah. Coming up here in my lorry.

He's hit his head. He's quite confused.

He is black and bruised, where he's landed.Right.

He's got cuts and scrapes all over. Okay.All right.

Hiya. Hello, there.

Nice to meet you.

What do we call you?

Marc.

Marc? I'm Leanne. This is Stewart.

Uh-huh.Can you tell us what's happened?

No?

Marc Heron's family are at the scene.

They were alerted to the accident by the smartwatch Marc was wearing.

I think he's come off his bike. Took a hit.

Banged his head and come off.

Any pain down your neck?

I don't know if he... Is it all right?

Yeah. He's quite confused, ain't he?

Let's get this helmet off, shall we? Have a little look at your head.

You could tell that he was conscious,

but there was something that wasn't quite right.

It was that kind of gut instinct.

Marc, do me a favour and just try and keep your head still for us.

Yeah. Yeah?

However you can, we ideally want him not moving his head. That all right?

A passer-by has also stopped to help.

The driver found him in the middle of the road

and alerted myself to come and assist him.

Erm, he wasn't making any coherent speech, at all,

and seemed quite confused and was just rocking

and we just knew he needed an ambulance as quick as we could.

Can you take some big, deep breaths for me?

Marc can't tell them what happened, but his smartwatch can.

The watch gave us an indication of the time he had fallen,

where he'd fallen and, also, because of Strava,

it told us how fast he was going when he fell, so we were able

to establish that it had been quite a significant impact.

It was absolutely brilliant to see that.

Technology gives us more intelligence in this.

In this case, we could see what we were dealing with.

The crew is behind us, mate. I'll get a stretcher.Oh.

Can we get a scoop and blocks?

A scoop and blocks? Yeah.

A land ambulance has arrived to support the crew.

Any pain around there, at all?

No, I'm fine. No?

He's very confused.

Who is? You!

Well, I'm... You were, very, Marc, at one point.

Hiya. Hi. Are you all right?

Yeah. You? Yes, thank you.

This is Marc. He's come off his bike,

at some point, we think about half two.

The lorry driver kind of found him.

The only thing obvious at the minute is a potential head.

He's quite confused.

We'll get him onto the scoop, get him laid down.

Get him in the DCA and we can do a full top to tail.

Marc, we're gonna put this scoop underneath you.

All right?Yeah.It might mean that you'll need to lay down.

Then we'll scoop underneath you and lift you. All right?

Might mean laying down on the road. Are you all right with that?

Yeah.Yeah?Right, are you gonna lay down with me, then?

Keep your head nice and still for us.

That's it, go on, I've got you.

Leave it off.

On Leanne's call.

You ready?Yeah. Ready. Steady. Roll.

Lovely. Come back down, Marc.

I'll get you some pain relief sorted on the ambulance.

On you again, Leanne.I'm not gonna be in an ambulance, am I?

Ready. Steady. Roll.

We are, you're going for a trip.

Where... Where's hurting?

My ribs.

Your ribs?Yeah. I think his pelvis is all right.

He's moving. Yeah, he is, in't he? Yeah.

We're just gonna lift you up and across onto this stretcher, Marc.

Keep nice and still for me. Yeah.

Okay. Ready? Steady. Lift.

And across.

Marc, do you know where you are right now?Yeah.Where are you?

I'm in... I'm lying on this...

bed and I'm just kind of curious about what's going on.

Exactly. It's the fact that you can't remember what's going on

that's our concern, buddy. Okay.

So you've come off your mountain bike.

Okay.You banged your head, so you're a little bit confused.

We think you've got a bit of concussion going on,

but we need to find out what else is going on, as well.

Do you know what day it is today, Marc?

Erm... Now let me think.

The confusion is normally caused by the brain

rattling around inside the skull.

Erm, so we knew that he'd had a significant force injury.

It was something that we needed to keep an eye on.

When your brain hits your skull, it can cause

different variations of bleeding and bruising to the outside.

So it's quite important that we assess him quite quickly

to establish the, kind of, degree of injury.

Can you think what day it is yet, Marc?

Erm... I don't know yet.

Okay, mate. Take a guess for me.

Friday?

You think or you know? I think.OK, mate.

Marc's smartwatch has been useful,

but other evidence helps piece together what happened to him today.

Leanne?

It looks like he's fronted and then rolled on it, yeah.

He's got a decent... Front and back.

Yeah, he's bounced and rolled, I think.

Helmets are designed to take an impact.

Depending on where the impact is,

it can tell us how Marc has fallen off his bike

to see where the damage could be, so we can further investigate

and see if there is any other injuries associated with that.

It looks like it's more from an injury.From coming off...

If you look actually in his ear, there's no blood.Drier blood,

because it's all from the outside.

From some sort of thing somewhere else. In his ears is fine.

Just...Yeah. We don't think he is internal-bleeding.

We think it's more his head. Sure.Happy, mate?

Yeah. Shall we skedaddle?

Yeah.

He's all right. They'll bomb him up to Hull.Yeah.

He seems like he's come down a hill

wearing a watch that's got a GPS tracker in it.

It's noticed a big deceleration and contacted his next of kin.

We got a location and got here quite quick, because of that.

The first time I've seen that. That's quite impressive. Quite cool.

Marc will go to the hospital by road.

Happy?Why did he make us walk up a hill, as well?

That's it, it didn't look like that much of a hill, did it?

He thought, "Let's make them walk there, look."(CHUCKLES)

On, literally, the other side. "Let's make them walk up a hill.

"With a load of kit!" (LAUGHS)

ROB: Sandra, take a big breath in for me.

Sandra Danette spent almost a month in hospital,

after falling off a stepladder in her garden.

Sandra broke her arm and sternum

and needed skin-graft surgery to her injured leg.

She continues to have physiotherapy.

Do you know what day it is today, Marc?Erm... Now let me think.

Cyclist Marc Heron is still recovering,

after coming off his bike on a country road,

He broke 14 bones, including vertebrae in his neck.

Joe Billingham was taken to hospital with suspected spinal injuries,

after the horse he was riding reared and fell on him.

As a horse rider, you never think that

these accidents will happen to you.

I've ridden horses for 30 years.

But it was so quick. It was so sudden.

I was in hospital for... three days,

I think it was, I'm still recovering from it now, nine weeks on.

Thankfully, a scan revealed Joe's spine was not damaged,

but he had broken eight ribs.

Mr Orange, you're my best friend, you know.

What about Mr Blue over here?

You're my best friend, as well. Ah, nice one.

After breaking his leg falling from a motorbike,

12-year-old Regan underwent surgery the same night.

The doctors repaired the fracture with a metal implant.

It was wet and slippy.

The front wheel went into the ditch

and then it just flipped me off.

After five months in recovery, Regan is still undergoing physiotherapy.

I've been resting for five weeks and I've been filling that time in

playing video games.

Regan is looking forward to getting back in the saddle,

but it will be on a different bike.

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