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