0:00:02 > 0:00:04Rural Britain has some of the most challenging
0:00:04 > 0:00:06environments in the world.
0:00:06 > 0:00:09In Scotland the mountains, lochs and coastline encourage tourists
0:00:09 > 0:00:12and locals to get out into the wilds.
0:00:12 > 0:00:15But with that comes danger.
0:00:23 > 0:00:25The emergency services north of the border
0:00:25 > 0:00:28have to deal with extreme challenges every day.
0:00:28 > 0:00:29Raising the winch.
0:00:29 > 0:00:31Keep your arms by your side!
0:00:31 > 0:00:34From severe weather and treacherous terrain...
0:00:37 > 0:00:42..to covering huge distances on rural roads with time against them.
0:00:42 > 0:00:46We're doing about 85 miles per hour just now.
0:00:46 > 0:00:48They work around the clock,
0:00:48 > 0:00:50battling against some of the most difficult situations.
0:00:53 > 0:00:55We'll be right at the heart of the action.
0:00:55 > 0:00:58Side-by-side with Air Rescue saving lives.
0:00:59 > 0:01:02On the road with paramedics caring for the injured,
0:01:02 > 0:01:05and following the police, fighting crime,
0:01:05 > 0:01:08as the emergency services work together, to pick up,
0:01:08 > 0:01:13patch up and protect the public, in rural communities.
0:01:13 > 0:01:16This is Countryside 999.
0:01:34 > 0:01:39Coming up, paramedics race to a woman who's struggling to breathe.
0:01:44 > 0:01:47The Royal Navy helicopter team scramble
0:01:47 > 0:01:50to a serious accident in a remote forest...
0:01:53 > 0:01:57..and police and paramedics deal with a night-time multi-car pile up.
0:02:12 > 0:02:15Reaching far-flung locations quickly
0:02:15 > 0:02:17can be difficult for rural emergency services,
0:02:17 > 0:02:20and navigating remote forest is particularly challenging.
0:02:24 > 0:02:27In Scotland, the timber and forestry industry
0:02:27 > 0:02:31employs around 40,000 people, often in hard-to-reach places,
0:02:31 > 0:02:36so, when accidents happen, getting to them is rarely easy.
0:02:38 > 0:02:40On Scotland's south-west coast,
0:02:40 > 0:02:44HMS Gannet operates one of the busiest Royal Navy search and rescue units
0:02:44 > 0:02:48in Britain, covering an area 12 times the size of Wales.
0:02:50 > 0:02:52PHONE RINGS
0:02:52 > 0:02:57It's 2pm, and an emergency call has just come in.
0:02:57 > 0:03:01Observer or Navigator Phil Gamble is taking the details.
0:03:01 > 0:03:04Yep?
0:03:04 > 0:03:06Chest, right arm and ankle, OK.
0:03:06 > 0:03:08A forestry worker is reported to be badly injured,
0:03:08 > 0:03:12crushed under a tree in remote woodland.
0:03:12 > 0:03:14We're then going to Tighnabruaich
0:03:14 > 0:03:16and in absence of the two, 975 728.
0:03:18 > 0:03:23Also on call today are pilot Jon Green and winchman, Taff Ashman.
0:03:23 > 0:03:27We've just been called to a possible tree surgeon or lumberjack
0:03:27 > 0:03:28that's had a tree come down on top of him.
0:03:28 > 0:03:30He's got various crush injuries,
0:03:30 > 0:03:34sort of chest and left-hand side, I think it was, from the phone call.
0:03:34 > 0:03:37We're going to go pick up a couple of doctors first
0:03:37 > 0:03:39and we'll take it from there.
0:03:46 > 0:03:49INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER
0:03:52 > 0:03:56Co-pilot is Lloydy Shanahan, veteran of eight tours in Bosnia, Iraq
0:03:56 > 0:04:01and Afghanistan. He's faced his fair share of enemies.
0:04:01 > 0:04:05But today, he's up against one of the crew's biggest adversaries -
0:04:05 > 0:04:06the weather.
0:04:17 > 0:04:21The casualty is in remote woodland in Tighnabruaich,
0:04:21 > 0:04:22on the Cowal Peninsula.
0:04:24 > 0:04:27Early information suggests it's a serious injury.
0:04:29 > 0:04:32So Lloydy and pilot Jon collect a paramedic
0:04:32 > 0:04:35and doctor from the emergency medical retrieval team in Glasgow,
0:04:35 > 0:04:39taking their specialist knowledge direct to the scene.
0:04:48 > 0:04:51The Sea King helicopter is quickly airborne again.
0:04:53 > 0:04:57But it's not long before they get a worrying update.
0:05:21 > 0:05:25The man is trapped under a tree, but misty weather and
0:05:25 > 0:05:29the impenetrable forest is playing havoc with the rescue, making it
0:05:29 > 0:05:32difficult for teams on the ground to pinpoint his exact location.
0:05:38 > 0:05:42The helicopter crew monitor communications from the scene.
0:05:49 > 0:05:51It's not looking good.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54If the teams on the ground can't find the casualty soon,
0:05:54 > 0:05:57the navy crew will have to join the search for him on foot,
0:05:57 > 0:06:00in dense forest and worsening weather.
0:06:11 > 0:06:13In Dumfries and Galloway,
0:06:13 > 0:06:15there's one member of the Ambulance Service
0:06:15 > 0:06:17for every 15 square miles.
0:06:17 > 0:06:21In London, there are 108.
0:06:21 > 0:06:24Local lad and ambulance technician Malky McNeish
0:06:24 > 0:06:27followed in his father's footsteps, joining the Ambulance Service
0:06:27 > 0:06:29eight years ago.
0:06:29 > 0:06:31He's on shift today,
0:06:31 > 0:06:33with former Londoner and paramedic
0:06:33 > 0:06:36of 20 years, Paul Votier.
0:06:38 > 0:06:40They've just received an emergency call
0:06:40 > 0:06:43to a woman in a critical condition.
0:06:43 > 0:06:44The woman's daughter
0:06:44 > 0:06:46and partner happen to be visiting from Birmingham
0:06:46 > 0:06:48and were there to dial 999.
0:07:07 > 0:07:09SIREN WAILS
0:07:09 > 0:07:12The patient, Susan, lives in the small village of Ecclefechan,
0:07:12 > 0:07:146 and a half miles from Lockerbie.
0:07:16 > 0:07:20Despite the wet roads, they get to Susan's house in 12 minutes flat.
0:07:24 > 0:07:28- I'll drop you off.- Listen, I'll get the bag and the 02.- Right.
0:07:33 > 0:07:37Once inside, Paul finds Susan gasping for breath.
0:07:37 > 0:07:40He immediately fits her with a nebuliser containing Ventolin
0:07:40 > 0:07:43to help expand her airways.
0:07:43 > 0:07:47Paul finds out Susan has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,
0:07:47 > 0:07:50a serious lung condition that affects her breathing.
0:07:58 > 0:08:00'When we first see this patient, she's in the kitchen'
0:08:00 > 0:08:02and she had obvious signs of bronchospasms,
0:08:02 > 0:08:06the way she was sitting, the audible wheeze, it's all signs that
0:08:06 > 0:08:07her airway's constricting
0:08:07 > 0:08:09and it's getting plugged by the mucus.
0:08:09 > 0:08:13The treatment for that is Ventolin, which is,
0:08:13 > 0:08:15we put into a nebuliser, we run oxygen through it
0:08:15 > 0:08:19and what it does then is just starts opening up the airway
0:08:19 > 0:08:23and starts loosening off the mucus so the airway starts getting bigger
0:08:23 > 0:08:26and start getting her breathing under control.
0:08:26 > 0:08:27Susan has smoked for 40 years
0:08:27 > 0:08:31and knows it's been a contributing factor.
0:08:31 > 0:08:33- Does it feel as if the oxygen is helping?- Yes.
0:08:33 > 0:08:36You're starting to speak to me in full sentences again,
0:08:36 > 0:08:39- you're not so much... - Not so much. Yeah.
0:08:44 > 0:08:48- Have you got a pair of slippers or anything you want to put on?- Er, no.
0:08:48 > 0:08:50The drugs are now slowly kicking in.
0:08:52 > 0:08:56But Susan's condition could deteriorate at any moment.
0:08:56 > 0:09:00They must get her to the specialist care she needs.
0:09:00 > 0:09:01You pop your feet up.
0:09:04 > 0:09:06Any allergies at all, Susan?
0:09:10 > 0:09:12SHE COUGHS
0:09:12 > 0:09:16The coughing's making it even harder for Susan to breathe.
0:09:16 > 0:09:19So she is given a second dose of Ventolin.
0:09:19 > 0:09:21SHE COUGHS
0:09:25 > 0:09:28Her daughter Joanne is accompanying her to the hospital.
0:09:31 > 0:09:33This might make you cough a little bit more,
0:09:33 > 0:09:37- it loosens it all up, OK? - SHE COUGHS
0:09:37 > 0:09:39That's what we want.
0:09:39 > 0:09:42Just going to take your temperature, Susan, OK, in your ear.
0:09:42 > 0:09:45It's been an alarming ordeal for Joanne.
0:10:03 > 0:10:07It takes 25 minutes to make the 17-mile journey to hospital.
0:10:07 > 0:10:11But the drugs continue to ease Susan's breathing.
0:10:11 > 0:10:15She's delivered to a specialist team who will ensure
0:10:15 > 0:10:18there are no blockages that may stop her breathing again.
0:10:18 > 0:10:21If she hadn't had that treatment, if we weren't called,
0:10:21 > 0:10:24her airway would have closed.
0:10:24 > 0:10:25It would have just closed.
0:10:25 > 0:10:28And she would, at some point, have lost consciousness,
0:10:28 > 0:10:31she would have collapsed and I think she would have died, maybe.
0:10:31 > 0:10:33If we weren't called.
0:10:45 > 0:10:49In remote woodland near Tighnabruaich in Argyll,
0:10:49 > 0:10:52the Royal Navy search and rescue team are desperately searching
0:10:52 > 0:10:55for a seriously injured lumberjack.
0:10:55 > 0:10:58Dreadful weather and thick forest mean rescue teams
0:10:58 > 0:11:00on the ground have failed to locate the casualty.
0:11:03 > 0:11:07They believe he's pinned under a tree with crush injuries,
0:11:07 > 0:11:09so the helicopter crew need to find him fast.
0:11:21 > 0:11:24Pilot Jon skilfully flies the 10-ton Sea King
0:11:24 > 0:11:28in the gap between the low cloud base and the treetops.
0:11:29 > 0:11:31But visibility is poor.
0:11:33 > 0:11:36And the casualty is nowhere to be seen.
0:11:41 > 0:11:44The team prepare to lower winchman Taff to look
0:11:44 > 0:11:45for the casualty on foot.
0:11:56 > 0:11:58Lower the winch.
0:12:05 > 0:12:09Taff spots an 80-foot weather mast looming ahead,
0:12:09 > 0:12:12a dangerous hazard for the helicopter hovering nearby.
0:12:27 > 0:12:29We've got good visuals on the trees,
0:12:29 > 0:12:32but obviously the mist is lingering above them,
0:12:32 > 0:12:37and then all of a sudden you see a mast just come out of the fog.
0:12:37 > 0:12:40It's a bit like driving a car and all of a sudden you see
0:12:40 > 0:12:42an animal on the road in front of you.
0:12:47 > 0:12:49Pilot Jon must be extremely careful.
0:12:49 > 0:12:52If the helicopter's 9-metre rotor blades get caught
0:12:52 > 0:12:56in the mast's cables, it could send them crashing to the ground.
0:13:01 > 0:13:05But, in finding it, they also spot something else.
0:13:14 > 0:13:18The coastguard on the ground have found the injured man.
0:13:25 > 0:13:29The crew uplift Taff and head towards the casualty,
0:13:29 > 0:13:32who is located worryingly close to the 80-foot mast.
0:13:39 > 0:13:42Paramedic Nicola needs to be winched down,
0:13:42 > 0:13:46but Jon is anxious about hovering so close to the dangerous obstacle.
0:13:50 > 0:13:54One of the big things to be aware of when you're flying anywhere near
0:13:54 > 0:13:57a very tall mast is that they've got long cables
0:13:57 > 0:14:01securing them that come out quite a way from the mast and generally,
0:14:01 > 0:14:04the taller the mast is, the further away from the mast these cables go.
0:14:04 > 0:14:0580 yards.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11Manoeuvring so close to the mast is testing
0:14:11 > 0:14:13the mettle of the entire team.
0:14:18 > 0:14:22With the lumberjack wedged under a tree suffering from crush injuries,
0:14:22 > 0:14:26the crew must winch Taff and the medic down as quickly as they can.
0:14:38 > 0:14:42Carrying out emergency operations in difficult conditions
0:14:42 > 0:14:44is par for the course in rural areas.
0:14:46 > 0:14:48Earlier, paramedic Paul Votier
0:14:48 > 0:14:52and ambulance technician Malky McNeish navigated wet country roads
0:14:52 > 0:14:56to get Susan to hospital when she was struggling to breathe.
0:14:59 > 0:15:04Now they must negotiate more rainy roads, this time in darkness,
0:15:04 > 0:15:07in response to a 999 call they have just received.
0:15:07 > 0:15:11Two cars have crashed on the M74 motorway.
0:15:12 > 0:15:17You know, somebody has maybe either aquaplaned or a tyre has blown
0:15:17 > 0:15:20and they've maybe hit the central reservation, bounced back out.
0:15:20 > 0:15:23It could be two cars colliding, it could be anything, really.
0:15:23 > 0:15:25SIRENS BLARE
0:15:25 > 0:15:28A call like this requires a joint effort
0:15:28 > 0:15:30between the emergency services.
0:15:30 > 0:15:32Police officers Stuart Delaney
0:15:32 > 0:15:34and David Holland are also racing to the scene.
0:15:36 > 0:15:40We've just had a call from the control room, telling us
0:15:40 > 0:15:43that there is a two vehicle collision
0:15:43 > 0:15:45just north of Gretna.
0:15:45 > 0:15:48We don't know if there's any injuries at the moment.
0:15:50 > 0:15:53Motorway accidents are particularly hazardous.
0:15:53 > 0:15:56With high-speed traffic on a dark, rainy night,
0:15:56 > 0:15:59a two-car crash can easily turn into a multi-car pile up.
0:16:02 > 0:16:05The officers are first on scene.
0:16:05 > 0:16:08There is one damaged car on the hard shoulder
0:16:08 > 0:16:11and another is in a nearside lane, so they cone off the area.
0:16:12 > 0:16:16After the crash, driver Dennis and his passenger fled their car,
0:16:16 > 0:16:20which was dangerously stranded in the middle of the motorway.
0:16:20 > 0:16:25How are you doing, folks? Were you involved at all?
0:16:25 > 0:16:28Right, which is your car?
0:16:28 > 0:16:30They've just dragged it off? All right.
0:16:30 > 0:16:34What's this car here? Was that involved as well?
0:16:34 > 0:16:37So that's involved as well. Who was driving that?
0:16:39 > 0:16:42It appears there were more than two cars involved
0:16:42 > 0:16:43in this motorway crash.
0:16:43 > 0:16:45We'll just get this car off. >
0:16:45 > 0:16:48Just moments after Dennis and his friends escaped their car,
0:16:48 > 0:16:50it was hit by a second vehicle.
0:16:50 > 0:16:55Now that vehicle is stranded in lane one and the driver can't shift it.
0:16:56 > 0:17:00Is this your car, is it? Can you drive it off at all?
0:17:03 > 0:17:07It won't move? Right, okey-dokes.
0:17:07 > 0:17:10We'll just have to drag it off. OK?
0:17:10 > 0:17:12When you arrive on the scene of an accident like that,
0:17:12 > 0:17:15you've got so many things to consider, you have to consider
0:17:15 > 0:17:20your safety, your colleague's safety, every member of the public's safety.
0:17:20 > 0:17:23When the traffic is not flowing properly,
0:17:23 > 0:17:26it tends to cause more accidents as well.
0:17:29 > 0:17:30It's rush hour,
0:17:30 > 0:17:33so the police tow the car off the carriageway themselves.
0:17:36 > 0:17:40Yeah, roger, 4342459.
0:17:40 > 0:17:43That's the vehicle clear of the carriageway.
0:17:44 > 0:17:47Altaf saw the accident ahead.
0:17:47 > 0:17:49But too late.
0:17:49 > 0:17:52The car was right in the middle of the road when I was coming.
0:17:52 > 0:17:55So I just tried to pull to the left side,
0:17:55 > 0:17:58but still I hit the front of that car.
0:18:00 > 0:18:05PCs David and Stuart walk up the hard shoulder to find
0:18:05 > 0:18:06the third car involved.
0:18:07 > 0:18:09Down the offside, I think.
0:18:09 > 0:18:11Tyres are all right.
0:18:14 > 0:18:15You'd say that's driveable.
0:18:21 > 0:18:23It may be driveable,
0:18:23 > 0:18:26but the car's driver Adam has knocked his head in the crash.
0:18:31 > 0:18:35Paramedics Malky and Paul have just arrived on scene.
0:18:35 > 0:18:37They assess Adam's injury.
0:18:38 > 0:18:40When you spun the car,
0:18:40 > 0:18:43did you say that your head banged against the window?
0:18:43 > 0:18:46That's fine. Definitely no pain in your neck?
0:18:46 > 0:18:49- No, it feels OK. - Can you put your chin on your chest?
0:18:49 > 0:18:52- Is it sore to do that? No? - A little bit.- Right.
0:18:52 > 0:18:53And what about side to side?
0:18:56 > 0:18:58- Yeah, OK.- Fine. That's good. - Just here feels...
0:18:58 > 0:19:02Aye, so it's mainly just that you've had a bang on the head, I think.
0:19:02 > 0:19:06Adam's head injury is minor, but he is still in shock.
0:19:06 > 0:19:07Driving along.
0:19:07 > 0:19:10Yeah, just out of the blue, erm,
0:19:10 > 0:19:14someone hit the side of the car and luckily...
0:19:14 > 0:19:16there was nobody on the inside.
0:19:16 > 0:19:19I managed to keep control and got it on to the hard shoulder.
0:19:19 > 0:19:23Big shock. Yeah. Real surprise.
0:19:23 > 0:19:27They've all walked out their vehicle, so it could have been a lot worse.
0:19:27 > 0:19:32But it's a good outcome to what looks like quite a bad accident.
0:19:32 > 0:19:35With no other injured parties,
0:19:35 > 0:19:39the paramedics can leave the police to pick up the pieces.
0:19:39 > 0:19:43David and Stuart now have the task of finding out exactly how
0:19:43 > 0:19:45this three-car pile up happened.
0:19:54 > 0:19:57On the remote Cowal Peninsula on Scotland's west coast,
0:19:57 > 0:20:01the Royal Navy search and rescue team are racing to find
0:20:01 > 0:20:04an injured lumberjack who has been crushed under a tree.
0:20:10 > 0:20:12It's a joint effort between local paramedics
0:20:12 > 0:20:15and the Coast Guard, who have just found the casualty,
0:20:15 > 0:20:18and two emergency medics who are airlifted to treat the man
0:20:18 > 0:20:20on site in this remote location.
0:20:23 > 0:20:26Paramedic Nicola will be winched down to assess the casualty,
0:20:26 > 0:20:30who they believe is suffering from crush injuries.
0:20:30 > 0:20:32OK. Good position. Good position.
0:20:33 > 0:20:36But the lumberjack is next to a large mast,
0:20:36 > 0:20:38making it difficult for the helicopter to hover.
0:20:51 > 0:20:55Observer Phil has directed the Sea King to a safe position.
0:21:00 > 0:21:06Winchman Taff is lowered down first from a height of 130 feet,
0:21:06 > 0:21:08quickly followed by paramedic Nicola.
0:21:10 > 0:21:13Lower the winch. Lower the winch.
0:21:13 > 0:21:15Lower the winch.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17Lower the winch. Lower the winch.
0:21:22 > 0:21:25They discover the lumberjack is no longer trapped under the tree
0:21:25 > 0:21:29and his condition is not as bad as they had feared,
0:21:29 > 0:21:32but his crush injuries are causing a lot of pain.
0:21:32 > 0:21:36Myself and Nicola went down and I made an assessment of the guy.
0:21:36 > 0:21:38The injuries were not life-threatening.
0:21:38 > 0:21:41I think he had a broken or a dislocation to his arm
0:21:41 > 0:21:46and a few other minor cuts and bruises, but certainly not
0:21:46 > 0:21:49the life-threatening crush injuries that we thought.
0:21:49 > 0:21:52Since the injured lumberjack is able to move, winchman Taff
0:21:52 > 0:21:55radios up to confirm a stretcher will not be needed.
0:22:09 > 0:22:11Paramedic Nicola is winched up first.
0:22:35 > 0:22:39Finally lumberjack Scott is safely uplifted.
0:22:47 > 0:22:50Scott's arm and leg injuries are taking their toll.
0:22:50 > 0:22:53Nicola administers the pain relieving gas Entonox.
0:22:57 > 0:23:01It's a short flight back to base where an ambulance is waiting.
0:23:03 > 0:23:05It might be just a short distance to the stretcher,
0:23:05 > 0:23:10but it's a giant step for a lumberjack with an injured foot.
0:23:10 > 0:23:14A last blast of Entonox and he takes the plunge.
0:23:19 > 0:23:21HE GROANS
0:23:21 > 0:23:24Right. Turn around. Turn around.
0:23:26 > 0:23:29Scott is handed over to local paramedics who will take him
0:23:29 > 0:23:32to the hospital ten minutes away.
0:23:33 > 0:23:37Another successful joint effort from the team at HMS Gannet.
0:23:49 > 0:23:53Like the search and rescue team, paramedics and police
0:23:53 > 0:23:55have also joined forces in Dumfries.
0:23:55 > 0:23:58They're working together to make sure passengers
0:23:58 > 0:24:00and vehicles involved in a multi-car collision
0:24:00 > 0:24:05on a motorway aren't in harm's way, or endangering other road users.
0:24:08 > 0:24:10Incredibly, the three drivers
0:24:10 > 0:24:12and passenger have escaped almost unharmed.
0:24:14 > 0:24:16That's fine. Definitely no pain in your neck?
0:24:16 > 0:24:18No, feels OK.
0:24:18 > 0:24:22Now PCs David Holland and Stuart Delaney must get to the bottom
0:24:22 > 0:24:25of what could have caused the accident.
0:24:25 > 0:24:28They start with the first driver, Dennis.
0:24:29 > 0:24:32But it is not as straightforward as they thought.
0:24:42 > 0:24:45There's more to this accident than meets the eye.
0:24:46 > 0:24:51Dennis reveals he was first hit by a mystery fourth vehicle,
0:24:51 > 0:24:53which seems to have left the scene.
0:24:53 > 0:24:56Then he hit Adam from the impact of the crash.
0:24:56 > 0:24:59Dennis and his passenger legged it to the hard shoulder
0:24:59 > 0:25:02before Altaf hit the back of Dennis's abandoned vehicle.
0:25:04 > 0:25:09It wasn't just three cars involved as we initially thought, but there
0:25:09 > 0:25:13was a fourth car that had possibly caused the accident
0:25:13 > 0:25:15that had failed to stop.
0:25:15 > 0:25:18Stuart questions the third car's driver, Adam, to see
0:25:18 > 0:25:21if he can help identify the elusive fourth vehicle.
0:25:36 > 0:25:39On a busy motorway in the pitch black,
0:25:39 > 0:25:42establishing the facts can be difficult.
0:25:42 > 0:25:45Stuart contacts the control room to ask other units to
0:25:45 > 0:25:47be on the lookout for the other missing fourth car.
0:25:49 > 0:25:52It's like looking for a needle in a haystack.
0:25:52 > 0:25:55The vehicle which has caused this hasn't stopped,
0:25:55 > 0:26:01it's continued northwards. It's obviously got a 25 minute head start.
0:26:01 > 0:26:05We don't have any details of it whatsoever other than it's dark in colour.
0:26:07 > 0:26:1311% of traffic accidents in Britain in 2011 were hit-and-runs like this.
0:26:13 > 0:26:17They would have known they had been involved in a collision
0:26:17 > 0:26:21and, therefore, they have a duty to stop and report that,
0:26:21 > 0:26:24which they haven't done, so should I manage to trace
0:26:24 > 0:26:26the driver of that vehicle, or the vehicle,
0:26:26 > 0:26:29then they will get reported for failing to stop
0:26:29 > 0:26:33and report an accident and also probably careless driving.
0:26:35 > 0:26:38Both these charges carry heavy penalties with a fine,
0:26:38 > 0:26:41points and possible disqualification.
0:26:41 > 0:26:45Failing to stop can even result in six months in prison.
0:26:50 > 0:26:52The scene is cleared of cars and debris,
0:26:52 > 0:26:56all lanes reopened and the driver is taken home.
0:26:56 > 0:27:00This turned out to be a four-car collision on a fast flowing motorway.
0:27:00 > 0:27:05But miraculously all those involved have walked away relatively unharmed.
0:27:06 > 0:27:11Certainly what the drivers are saying has happened is it doesn't
0:27:11 > 0:27:15appear that any of them are to blame. There may be a fourth vehicle involved,
0:27:15 > 0:27:20but the main thing is all the drivers are OK, there's no injuries and we'll
0:27:20 > 0:27:27put what's known as a statistical report in for insurance purposes,
0:27:27 > 0:27:31basically. Whether anybody gets reported or not remains to be seen.
0:27:41 > 0:27:45It's been all go for the emergency services in Scotland's rural areas.
0:27:48 > 0:27:52Susan spent two weeks in hospital after a relapse.
0:27:52 > 0:27:55Thanks to the medical care she received,
0:27:55 > 0:28:00she is now back home and getting rehab in her local cottage hospital.
0:28:00 > 0:28:04After being a smoker for 40 years, she's now quit.
0:28:06 > 0:28:09The mysterious fourth vehicle involved in the crash
0:28:09 > 0:28:12on the M74 was never found.
0:28:12 > 0:28:15Now the insurance companies will take over
0:28:15 > 0:28:17and decide who pays out to whom.
0:28:19 > 0:28:22And lumberjack Scott was delivered safely to hospital where
0:28:22 > 0:28:25he received the specialist medical care he needed.
0:28:26 > 0:28:29And you thought it was quiet in the countryside.