Jul 1 2017
Whilst returning back to our base, the team happened upon a road traffic collision involving two cars.
A passing off duty paramedic had also stopped to provide assistance.
We provided safety for the scene until other emergency services arrived.
Oct 2 2015
Early this morning, following reports of a BT Telegraph Pole having fallen in to the carriageway of the A675 in the vicinity of Piccadilly Farm, near the Hollinshead Hall area, south of Abbey Village, – and subsequently being moved to the side of the road by motorists, a BT openreach Line Engineer was despatched to locate and repair a reported overhead telephone line fault.
The Engineer Aaron Patterson, found the overhead line down due to the fallen down telegraph pole.
Upon inspecting this, he heard groans from the adjacent banking at the side of the road, and discovered to his shock, a very seriously injured male motorcyclist, who was hidden completely from view from the road, with his badly damaged motorbike also hidden from view from the road, at the bottom of the banking alongside the road at this point.
Aaron immediately contacted the Ambulance Service, with an NWAS Emergency Ambulance arriving on scene at circa 09.30hrs.
Co-incidentally at this same time, and same location, very experienced team member Diane Blakeley chanced upon the arriving Ambulance, as she was awaiting a Duke Of Edinburgh’s Award Group practising for their expedition work in the area.
Offering her assistance, and noting she was in the Bolton MRT, a direct request was made by the Ambulance crew for MRT assistance to stretcher evacuate the seriously injured male from the bottom of the banking, over the fence and to their Ambulance.
Diane contacted our Team Leader Garry Rhodes MBE at 09.41hrs, and a full team pager call out was instigated at 09.45hrs.
On scene at the incident site it appeared that the 31 year old motorcyclist had collided with the telegraph pole, sustaining serious chest, internal, arm and back injuries.
He was stabilised by the responding NWAS crews, assisted by Diane and the BT Openreach Line Engineer Aaron Patterson.
At 10.14hrs the first of two of our responding Land Rovers arrived on scene, and working on the slope of the banking, hampered by midges and the angle of the banking, the man was carefully splinted, and evacuated on a mountain rescue stretcher to the waiting Ambulance.
By this stage Police had now completely closed the very busy A675 at this point, to ensure the safety of all the emergency services present and to preserve evidence on scene at what was a serious RTC.
At circa 10.55hrs, the North West Air Ambulance Helimed 72, landed in adjacent fields, and a further assessment of the mans injuries and a decision on how to transport him to Royal Preston Hospital was taken.
By 11.20hrs the injured man was on his way to hospital by Ambulance, with the Doctor from the NWAA Helimed 72 on board the Ambulance.
Helimed 72 departed at 11.32hrs with the road remaining closed for Police Traffic Officers to conduct a detailed investigation of the accident scene.
Our members and vehicles departed at 11.42hrs, with Police enquiries on scene still taking place.
The following resources were on scene at this RTC;
The following Lancashire Constabulary Police Appeal for Information relating to this accident appeared in the Lancashire Evening Telegraph, the same day;
Police have appealed for witnesses to come forward after a motorcyclist suffered serious injuries after colliding with a telegraph pole in Belmont.
The 31-year-old biker from Walton-le-Dale was has been travelling south on the A675 Belmont Road in the general direction of Bolton at the time of the accident around 7.45am today.
The bike collided with a telegraph pole and the motorcyclist ended up in a nearby field and the pole, demolished.
The road was believed to have been blocked for a short time.
The man sustained multiple fractures, internal injuries and a punctured lung.
Sgt John Jennings-Wharton said: “This happened in quite a rural location but I am asking people who may have seen something to get in touch.
“The man’s motorbike was a black Kawazaki ZX636 so if anyone saw this vehicle being ridden in area around the time of the collision, or indeed anyone saw the pole in the road or moved it, please give us a call.”
Those with information can contact Lancashire Police on 101 quoting incident reference 336 of today (2 October).
Jun 26 2015
This early evening, we were contacted via SARCALL at 17.45hrs by NWAS Broughton EOC and then by Lancashire Constabulary at 17.52hrs, to respond to an incident on the moorland track heading from the end of Crowthorn Road on to Holcombe Moor.
The call was dealt with by our Call Out Contact Steve Fletcher, who after liaison to gather more information, paged out a full team call out message at 18.02hrs.
The report was of a 60 year old male, who whilst driving off-road, had some sort of vehicle accident and was now suffering from shortness of breath. The North West Air Ambulance Helimed 75 had already arrived on scene, but it was not certain that the crew could easily gain access to the casualty in the location that he was in.
Three of our Land Rover Defender Mountain Rescue Ambulances responded, with our first vehicle mobilising at 18.06hrs from our GMFRS Bolton North Community Fire Station garage.
At circa 18.07hrs our first responding team member, Steve Nelson, arrived at the Crowthorn Road RVP, with our Bolton Mobile 1 vehicle arriving at 18.15hrs, and our BM2 vehicle at 18.30hrs.
Steve Nelson liaised with the crew of Helimed 75 on scene, who by this time had repositioned the aircraft. The remainder of the team and all vehicles were held on standby at the Crowthorn Reservoir rendezvous point.
A multi agency response had been made to this incident, involving the NWAA Helimed 75 from City Airport Manchester, an NWAS Emergency Ambulance, NWAS HART with their Polaris ATV, numerous Police resources from Lancashire Constabulary and Greater Manchester Police, and Bolton MRT.
Our BM4 vehicle arrived at the RVP at 18.41hrs, closely followed at 18.42hrs by Steve Nelson confirming a stand down, with the male casualty concerned, now reported as being safely on board Helimed 75.
At 18.44hrs a full team pager stand down was made. In total, 18 Bolton MRT members were involved in this incident with a further 4 team members stood down responding.
May 23 2015
At 09.52hrs this sunny morning, we were paged by NWAS EOC Broughton, to lend our assistance to a multi agency response developing to reports of a car which had left the road at Broadhead Road, in the vicinity of Pickup Bank, Hoddlesden.
Emergency Services resources were en route or already on scene when we were called, with our assistance being required to stretcher evacuate at least one person back up the embankment to the road.
The car involved, had two adult and two child occupants, with at least two of the four injured.
One of our team Land Rover Defender Mountain Rescue Ambulances was already mobilising, with three others about to mobilise, when our first team member on scene, Paul Brain, who arrived at 10.05hrs, quickly ascertained from the on scene commanders, there was no longer any requirement for MRT assistance, and this was confirmed in a pager stand down at 10.14hrs.
The following resources we understand were deployed or involved in this incident;
Massive thanks to ex-students from Rivington and Blackrod High School Year 13 who left in the summer. They kindly donated funds raised from selling photographs at their Prom. Tracey Witter, Student Support Team came along to make the donation on behalf of the students. pic.twitter.com/BhRralDs6y
Sep 17 2017
Incident 66/2017 – RTC De Havilland Way
At the conclusion of the peer review weekend all vehicles were travelling back to their respective bases when Team Leader Alistair Greenough received a phone call from the peer review team reporting they had come across an RTC involving two vehicles on De Havilland Way, and were requesting our assistance with the casualties.
Alistair, an A&E nurse, and Sam McKay, a staff nurse, assessed the casualties and helped to stabilise until an NWAS RRV arrived. We remained on scene until two ambulances arrived to transport the injured parties to hospital.
By Paul Brain • 2017, Incident • • Tags: RoadTrafficCollision