Keswick Mountain Rescue Team had a busy and unusual day yesterday – helping a biker, walker and a roller skater.
The roller skater dislocated her elbow while on the Keswick to Threlkeld Trail.
The team said: “The relatively smooth surface makes it ideal for roller skating. The Tarmac is however quite unforgiving as one unfortunate roller skater found when she tried to save herself after a backwards fall by putting her hand down. This resulted in a dislocated elbow.
“The woman’s companion, a Keswick Mountain Rescue Team member, called the team for assistance.
“A very rapid response followed with the team accessing the railway line and driving to the scene. Team doctors assessed the injury, provided analgesia and splinted the arm before transporting the casualty back to Keswick and their own transport to Carlisle’s Cumberland Infirmary.”
It was the third callout for the team, who had first attended to a woman walker with a broken or sprained ankle.
She was was at Raven Crag at Thirlmere and the team said: “She was unable to walk after tripping whilst descending the seemingly ball bearing-covered path. This has been the location of previous callouts in similar circumstances.”
The team drove up the Raven Crag forest road and quickly found the casualty on the path 100m from the track. After an assessment and splinting of the ankle the woman was stretchered to the team vehicle to drive down to the road and their own car for onward transport to hospital.
They were then called to a 51-year-old male mountain biker took a fast and long tumble on the north red route in Whinlatter dislocating his shoulder.
Two vehicles with team members approached on forest tracks and then on foot along the bike track to the casualty who was assessed, given strong pain relief before being stretchered down to a waiting ambulance for transfer to the Cumberland Infirmary’s A&E department.
