As described below, with the team on exercise this evening, at circa 21.00hrs, team friend (Who photographs many of our bigger exercises) Carl Silver contacted our Team Leader, requesting the teams help, to extricate his car from an icy stretch of the moorland road of Edge Lane in the Walker Fold area, overlooking Smithills.
Deputy Team Leader Geoff Seddon in his 4×4 kindly went to Carl’s assistance, and with tow rope, pushing and guidance Carl was returned, car intact, to safer road conditions.
At circa 21.10hrs, team members Paul Brain and Neil Aspinall, at Hordern Stoops acting as our ‘Exercise Control’ were then approached by a group of youths in a car, stating that another car nearby with three occupants had skidded off the moorland road of Rivington Road and then rolled over down the adjoining hillside.
Neil immediately informed our Team Leader on Winter Hill, taking part in the hill exercise, who then suspended the exercise, and all members made their way quickly down the steep hillside back to collect our vehicles, to render assistance.
Neil went directly to the nearby accident site, and quickly established that the three occupants of the vehicle (Aged 20, 21 and 22, all from Bolton) were apparently unharmed, despite their skid / crash off the road.
However the road conditions were now treacherous, with both black ice and visible ‘white ice’ making driving very hazardous.
Neil reported the accident to Lancashire Constabulary, whilst it was agreed with the Police that team members on the exercise, including a Doctor (Richard Moss) and an A&E Nurse (Alistair Greenough) would check over the two female and one male occupants of the car, just in case an Ambulance was required (Which was not thankfully the case)
Neil was then recontacted by Police, informing him of another nearby RTC, again a car skidded on ice, stating that Police Officers were en route.
We despatched to this our BM2 vehicle, with team members Ken Oakes, David Crawford and John Dickinson, who arrived on scene, just outside Abbey Village, at 21.50hrs, to discover a car had skidded, badly damaging the front of the vehicle but luckily the young male driver was uninjured.
An NWAS (Lancashire) Emergency Ambulance was already on scene, but soon departed given that the driver was uninjured.
The car was however blocking the carriageway, and our BM2 crew remained on scene, warning other road users until Police arrived at 22.05hrs, with BM2 finally leaving the scene at 22.20hrs.
Meanwhile back at the other RTC at Rivington Road, team members in one of our Land Rovers ferried a responding Lancashire Constabulary Traffic Officer from Hordern Stoops to the accident scene, as it was too icy for the Officer to continue in his patrol car.
A local Authority Highways Officer also now attended, due to reports of black ice on this high moorland road, and arranged for a gritting lorry to attend.
The three occupants from the badly damaged car were ferried down to Belmont Village in a Team Land Rover, to be collected by friends.
Meanwhile due to the hazardous nature of the road surface, Lancashire Constabulary decided to close the moorland road between Rivington and Belmont completely until the gritting lorry could attend.
A Police Patrol Car formed a road block at the Rivington end, whilst the team were requested by Police to maintain a road block at the Belmont end, which we did up to stand down by Lancashire Constabulary at 23.55hrs.
Late this evening (Wednesday 6th February) the following was kindly tweeted by Carl Silver … “A big BIG thank you to Bolton MRT for their assistance tonight!”
On Thursday 7th February, team member Ged Clarke, (Who was present on the incident on Rivington Road) in his capacity as a staff member at Bolton University, reported he had received the following kind communication from one of the two young women involved in this accident, who also happens to be one of Ged’s pupils at the University;
“Hi Ged, I realised that you were a mountain ranger (Webmaster; mountain rescuer) after one of your colleagues mentioned your name through the radio and realised that you’re one of my lecturers . I was in that accident tonight near Belmont Road, and I just want to thank you for yours and your colleagues work tonight as you guys were really helpful. Thanks again.”
Yesterday evening our specialist Mountain Rescue Trailing Dog Handler Steve Nelson was contacted to lend his assistance to an on going search operation to locate a missing woman in the North Yorkshire Police area of operations.
Early this morning at 07.30hrs Steve departed along with his specialist Search Dog Boris, and our Training Officer Elaine Gilliland, who was once more acting as Steve’s ‘navigator’ in the search area.
Steve, Boris and Elaine arrived at the search RVP at 09.30hrs to join in a search operation which has included members of Cleveland Mountain Rescue Team, Scarborough and Ryedale Mountain Rescue Team, RAF Leeming MRT, SARDA (England) Air Scenting Dog Teams, North Yorkshire Police, Police Dog teams, a Police Air Support Unit helicopter and a RAF Sea King SAR helicopter (Rescue 128)
The search was in the Helmsley area, for 68 years old Barbara Colling, the subject of public Police and other media appeals, who has not been seen since 09.30hrs on Monday 28th January, when she was last seen walking from Helmsley towards Stokesley.
With their part in the search operation completed, Steve, Boris and Elaine arrived home back to the Tottington, Bury, area by 18.45hrs this evening.
(As of Thursday 31st January, the search continues for Barbara Colling)
In still full and very wintry conditions despite the onset of heavy rain and thawing temperatures, we were paged at 18.29hrs to assist Lancashire Constabulary in locating and evacuating two male adults, five children and two dogs, stuck in their two 4×4 vehicles on an ice and snow bound moorland track.
All the party were we believe, from the Wigan area.
During the mid afternoon, they had travelled along the publicly accessible moorland road (Ordinarily a still driveable even to ordinary cars, moorland track – but in these wintry conditions only accessible to 4×4 vehicles) which was snow and ice covered, of Georges Lane, looking for a suitable location alongside the moorland track where they could all sledge, particularly as they had both young children with them including a disabled child, and they obviously wanted easy access to give all the experience of sledging.
Not familiar with the area, they reached a point on Georges Lane, alongside the Pigeon Tower in Rivington Terraced Gardens, where the track ‘changes’ to the private section known as Belmont Road.
Ordinarily this is closed by a locked gate, but vandals had removed the lock, badly damaged and opened the gate, and the party in their vehicles not being aware of this, drove on through the opening whereupon their vehicles became stuck on the track.
By nightfall and after contacting Lancashire Constabulary, an evacuation of the entire party from their predicament was deemed necessary, leaving their two vehicles for later recovery.
With a full team pager mobilisation at 18.41hrs, following our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE initially liaising with Lancashire Constabulary, we were firstly tasked with finding the group (They were found still sensibly in their stuck vehicles, on the moorland track of Belmont Road in the vicinity of Noon Hill) and then carried out a successful evacuation using two of our team Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulances, which we drove to their location, along with a Police Vehicle and our Deputy Team Leader Geoff Seddon’s 4×4 vehicle.
The party were evacuated to Chorley Police Station by the team, with the incident concluded at Chorley Police Station by 21.30hrs.
In total twenty Bolton MRT call out list members deployed to this incident, with most ‘on hold’ at the Incident RVP on Georges Lane in the vicinity of Montcliffe Quarry, Horwich. (The initial RVP of Lower House Car Park, Lever Park, Rivington, was changed early on in the incident response)
We deployed all four of our Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulance Vehicles, alongside a number of team members private 4×4 vehicles.
Lancashire Constabulary responded with a small number of local Officers in three vehicles.
At 12.42hrs we were contacted by NWAS (Lancashire) EOC to assist at an incident in the moorland village of Edgworth, where a bariatric female casualty had collapsed in her house, which was in an area completely snow bound, following a fall of some eight inches plus of snow overnight and into the early morning.
Following the gathering of information from NWAS (Lancashire) EOC and liaison between our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE and very experienced team members Steve Fletcher and Mike Marsh, who co-incidentally were at our Ladybridge Hall Base / HQ, a full team member call out was paged at 12.56hrs.
NWAS required the team to possible assist their responding crews, given the reported nature of the road network in the centre of Edgworth, where the lady involved lived, ie deep snow.
Our first responding team member, John Dickinson, who lives local, arrived on scene at 13.08hrs followed by team member Tony Dawson at 13.10hrs and then the initial responding NWAS (Lancashire) Emergency Ambulance, which had travelled along snow bound roads from Darwen Ambulance Station.
Ultimately a quite protracted rescue operation took place involving the Bolton MRT, joint with NWAS (Lancashire), NWAS (Manchester), Lancashire Constabulary, local residents and a tractor with bucket from a nearby Riding School, the woman was eventually transferred from her house to a specialist Bariatric Ambulance at 17.33hrs and taken onwards for treatment to Royal Blackburn Hospital.
At 17.45hrs all involved team members departed the incident location, whilst one of our members in a Team Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulance journeyed to Royal Blackburn Hospital to retrieve our equipment used.
The following resources were involved in this incident;
Bolton Mountain Rescue Team ; Two Land Rover Mountain Rescue Ambulances and eleven team Call Out list members on scene.
NWAS (Lancashire) Emergency Operations Centre.
NWAS (Lancashire) Emergency Ambulance and two crew from Darwen Ambulance Station.
NWAS (Lancashire) Rapid Response Vehicle with a Manager / Advanced Paramedic.
NWAS (Manchester) Specialist Bariatric Ambulance with two crew members.
NWAS HART Team; Initially were deploying to this incident but were re-tasked en route to another incident.
Lancashire Constabulary; Local Rural beat Officer acting as Police Liaison.
Members of the public from the surrounding properties also assisted team members with initially clearing a route to the property where the lady involved had collapsed, by digging a channel through the snow for the Bariatric Ambulance to get close to the property.
Thanks also to former Team member and now GMP Officer Dave Kehoe, who lives locally, and arranged for the tractor (With bucket) from a nearby Riding Scholl at Affetside, to better clear a pathway to the house.
The team would like to thank the casualty involved and her husband for their understanding, particularly with our ‘intrusion’ (Albeit necessary) into their home, and to local residents for keeping us supplied with tea and biscuits whilst we awaited the arrival of the specialist Bariatric Ambulance.
Just after 17.00hrs early this wintry evening the team was paged by NWAS (Manchester) Emergency Operations Centre, regarding the increasingly snowy conditions prevailing in Greater Manchester, and the probable need at some point during the evening for the teams assistance.
With snow fall depth ultimately approaching twelve inches in some parts of Bolton and the outlying areas, calls upon the team soon started, with the team responding to six calls up to midnight.(And a further eight in to the morning of Saturday 26th January)
Calls handled upto midnight included one request for assistance from NWAS (Lancashire) and four from NWAS (Manchester) The locations included Wheelton, Brinscall, Bury, and the Bolton area, involving Emergency Ambulances stuck on snowy and icy roads, (Some responding to incidents, some with patients on board) ‘escorting’ Emergency Ambulances to Hospital on snowbound roads, and a call to a male with a serious leg injury. One further call this evening happened when our BM2 vehicle returning from an incident chanced upon a RTC on the snowbound M61 Motorway, and provided safety at the scene upto the arrival of Lancashire Constabulary resources.
Further calls this evening were also made upon the team, all snow fall related, including possible assistance to GMP at 23.41hrs to assist with the evacuation of a pregnant woman who was snowbound (This situation resolved itself as we were being given the information) these and other minor calls this evening, do not feature in our ‘Incident Listings.’
In total twenty one team Call Out list members were involved this evening.
Our thoughts and condolences are with the Royal Family following the sad news of the death of His Royal Highness Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Many of our members were inspired to enjoy the outdoors through the DofE Award. The picture shows members meeting the Duke in 1979. pic.twitter.com/SSTC30CcPB
At 4.56pm yesterday we were requested by NWAS to assist with a 22yo male who had fallen at Tiger’s Clough. The team treated him with pain relief & placed a vacuum splint around the injured ankle, then stretchered him to the waiting ambulance.We wish him a speedy recovery. pic.twitter.com/ZEbrt4vaLT
1/2 From all of us at BMRT we would just like to thank every one of you that donated to us this weekend. It was a hard decision for us not to do our usual Easter meet and great around Rivington but for the safety of our team members, we decided against it. pic.twitter.com/xkNOo8equX
1/ Today is usually a busy and important day for the team. With so many people visiting the Rivington area in particular, we would usually have our displays set up around the area to help educate people about outdoor safety. pic.twitter.com/0iKNZaqWU1
If you see a fire in the countryside, report it immediately 🔥
Leave the area as soon as possible and dial 999 📱
If you witness illegal activity report it to Crimestoppers 0800 555 111 pic.twitter.com/I7eRXLwQx4
❓ Did you know that moorland and wildfires can be started in a number of ways?
Sadly, many are started deliberately, however, some can break out by people being careless with barbecues, campfires or not disposing of cigarettes properly 🔥 pic.twitter.com/WDHdEHFcXA
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Feb 6 2013
Incident 35/2013
As described below, with the team on exercise this evening, at circa 21.00hrs, team friend (Who photographs many of our bigger exercises) Carl Silver contacted our Team Leader, requesting the teams help, to extricate his car from an icy stretch of the moorland road of Edge Lane in the Walker Fold area, overlooking Smithills.
Deputy Team Leader Geoff Seddon in his 4×4 kindly went to Carl’s assistance, and with tow rope, pushing and guidance Carl was returned, car intact, to safer road conditions.
At circa 21.10hrs, team members Paul Brain and Neil Aspinall, at Hordern Stoops acting as our ‘Exercise Control’ were then approached by a group of youths in a car, stating that another car nearby with three occupants had skidded off the moorland road of Rivington Road and then rolled over down the adjoining hillside.
Neil immediately informed our Team Leader on Winter Hill, taking part in the hill exercise, who then suspended the exercise, and all members made their way quickly down the steep hillside back to collect our vehicles, to render assistance.
Neil went directly to the nearby accident site, and quickly established that the three occupants of the vehicle (Aged 20, 21 and 22, all from Bolton) were apparently unharmed, despite their skid / crash off the road.
However the road conditions were now treacherous, with both black ice and visible ‘white ice’ making driving very hazardous.
Neil reported the accident to Lancashire Constabulary, whilst it was agreed with the Police that team members on the exercise, including a Doctor (Richard Moss) and an A&E Nurse (Alistair Greenough) would check over the two female and one male occupants of the car, just in case an Ambulance was required (Which was not thankfully the case)
We despatched to this our BM2 vehicle, with team members Ken Oakes, David Crawford and John Dickinson, who arrived on scene, just outside Abbey Village, at 21.50hrs, to discover a car had skidded, badly damaging the front of the vehicle but luckily the young male driver was uninjured.
An NWAS (Lancashire) Emergency Ambulance was already on scene, but soon departed given that the driver was uninjured.
The car was however blocking the carriageway, and our BM2 crew remained on scene, warning other road users until Police arrived at 22.05hrs, with BM2 finally leaving the scene at 22.20hrs.
Meanwhile back at the other RTC at Rivington Road, team members in one of our Land Rovers ferried a responding Lancashire Constabulary Traffic Officer from Hordern Stoops to the accident scene, as it was too icy for the Officer to continue in his patrol car.
A local Authority Highways Officer also now attended, due to reports of black ice on this high moorland road, and arranged for a gritting lorry to attend.
The three occupants from the badly damaged car were ferried down to Belmont Village in a Team Land Rover, to be collected by friends.
Meanwhile due to the hazardous nature of the road surface, Lancashire Constabulary decided to close the moorland road between Rivington and Belmont completely until the gritting lorry could attend.
A Police Patrol Car formed a road block at the Rivington end, whilst the team were requested by Police to maintain a road block at the Belmont end, which we did up to stand down by Lancashire Constabulary at 23.55hrs.
Late this evening (Wednesday 6th February) the following was kindly tweeted by Carl Silver … “A big BIG thank you to Bolton MRT for their assistance tonight!”
On Thursday 7th February, team member Ged Clarke, (Who was present on the incident on Rivington Road) in his capacity as a staff member at Bolton University, reported he had received the following kind communication from one of the two young women involved in this accident, who also happens to be one of Ged’s pupils at the University;
By admin • 2013, Incident • Tags: RoadTrafficCollision