0:00:03 > 0:00:06If you're critically ill or seriously injured, seconds count
0:00:06 > 0:00:11and in Britain's biggest county, you can be a long way from help.
0:00:11 > 0:00:13- Where's the patient? - 'Stuck under the car!'
0:00:13 > 0:00:16The Yorkshire Air Ambulance flies at 150mph,
0:00:16 > 0:00:21and thanks to its speed, hundreds of patients are alive today,
0:00:21 > 0:00:24saved by a highly-skilled team of doctors and paramedics.
0:00:25 > 0:00:27Stand clear, everybody.
0:00:27 > 0:00:31It covers some of the UK's most rugged landscapes,
0:00:31 > 0:00:34turning roadsides into operating theatres...
0:00:34 > 0:00:37We're going to put him to sleep with an emergency anaesthetic.
0:00:37 > 0:00:39..and town centres into helipads.
0:00:42 > 0:00:47And every day, the Helimed team's skill, speed and courage is saving lives.
0:00:56 > 0:00:58Today on Helicopter Heroes:
0:00:58 > 0:01:04A man's shot. He's miles from hospital and paramedic Tony must save him.
0:01:04 > 0:01:0712-bore to the leg.
0:01:07 > 0:01:11James is called to rescue a motorist run over by her own car.
0:01:11 > 0:01:16If anyone sees it moving, shout "Stop" - it all stops.
0:01:16 > 0:01:20A jockey comes off at 40mph and Pete's concerned.
0:01:20 > 0:01:22Tenderness round his pelvis as well.
0:01:22 > 0:01:27And the team hits the language barrier after a factory accident.
0:01:27 > 0:01:31SHE SPEAKS FOREIGN LANGUAGE
0:01:36 > 0:01:39These moors may look beautiful,
0:01:39 > 0:01:42but there's a reason there's heather as far as the eye can see.
0:01:42 > 0:01:50This landscape is man-made and some people are prepared to pay more than £1,000 a day to enjoy it.
0:01:51 > 0:01:55They're the sportsmen and women who come here to shoot game birds.
0:01:56 > 0:01:59From grouse to woodcock, pigeons to pheasants,
0:01:59 > 0:02:03they're all in the sights of enthusiasts with 12-bores.
0:02:03 > 0:02:05For many organised parties like this, food and drink
0:02:05 > 0:02:11is part of a pricey package that's lubricated many a business deal.
0:02:11 > 0:02:15But shooting in this part of the world is also an accepted part of country life.
0:02:15 > 0:02:18And today on a rough shoot near the market town of Thirsk,
0:02:18 > 0:02:22a young gun is badly injured.
0:02:22 > 0:02:28There's been an accidental shotgun shooting back in north Yorkshire.
0:02:28 > 0:02:33Shotgun injuries at close quarters are frequently fatal.
0:02:35 > 0:02:39INDISTINCT VOICES OVER RADIO
0:02:44 > 0:02:47There's an open wound, we're putting pressure on.
0:02:47 > 0:02:50- Shotgun wound, is that right? - 12 bore to the leg, yeah.
0:02:50 > 0:02:52- Hello, sir. What's your first name? - Craig.
0:02:52 > 0:02:55Hi, Craig. These guys will sort you out.
0:02:55 > 0:03:0026-year-old Craig Crawford was out shooting with friends.
0:03:00 > 0:03:03I went down, I said, "Keep still."
0:03:03 > 0:03:05The accident happened
0:03:05 > 0:03:09when a gun went off accidentally as it was being put away.
0:03:12 > 0:03:14Craig appears unconcerned about his wound
0:03:14 > 0:03:16but he's lost a lot of blood.
0:03:16 > 0:03:19As well as a large area of skin and muscle.
0:03:19 > 0:03:21It's a very serious injury.
0:03:21 > 0:03:25One of his mates has put on an improvised tourniquet 20 minutes ago.
0:03:25 > 0:03:29Doesn't seem to be affecting the leg much at this time.
0:03:29 > 0:03:33Craig's boots show exactly where the shotgun pellets went into his leg.
0:03:38 > 0:03:41This is a difficult case for paramedic Tony.
0:03:41 > 0:03:46The last shotgun wounds he treated were those of the victims of Cumbrian gunman Derrick Bird.
0:03:46 > 0:03:48Only one of four of his patients survived.
0:03:50 > 0:03:53What were you doing? Working on the farm?
0:03:53 > 0:03:56Just...on a shoot.
0:03:58 > 0:04:03The tourniquet, a belt, is still on Craig's leg.
0:04:03 > 0:04:06Tony is worried about it. It's too far up his leg
0:04:06 > 0:04:09and could be starving healthy tissue of blood.
0:04:09 > 0:04:12Just going to give them a phone, make sure they're happy with it.
0:04:12 > 0:04:15If I don't think it's doing right, to be honest.
0:04:15 > 0:04:16But it's a dilemma.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19If they take it off the bleeding could start all over again,
0:04:19 > 0:04:24Craig's already lost a lot of blood. Any more could be fatal.
0:04:33 > 0:04:37With seatbelts, air bags and even automatic braking on some cars,
0:04:37 > 0:04:41today's motorists are much more likely to survive an impact.
0:04:41 > 0:04:45But there are some freak accidents technology cannot prevent.
0:04:49 > 0:04:52High in the Pennines near Huddersfield,
0:04:52 > 0:04:55a terrified girl has dialled 999.
0:05:09 > 0:05:12The crew of Helimed 99 is familiar with most kinds of road accident,
0:05:12 > 0:05:14but this one sounds bizarre.
0:05:24 > 0:05:27We've got this house here, it should be that road.
0:05:27 > 0:05:31If we go over the railway, we've gone too far.
0:05:32 > 0:05:37Paramedic Graham Pemberton needs to examine 22-year-old Rachel Mellard
0:05:37 > 0:05:39but it's going to be a struggle.
0:05:40 > 0:05:43- All right, Rachel? How you doing? - I just want this car off me.
0:05:43 > 0:05:47I'm sure you do, sweetheart. We'll have it off as soon as we can.
0:05:47 > 0:05:49- Are you OK there?- Yeah, I'm fine.
0:05:49 > 0:05:53Rachel was visiting her friend, Megan, who made the emergency call.
0:05:53 > 0:05:58I heard Rachel scream so I came running out.
0:05:58 > 0:06:01She was quite twisted underneath the car.
0:06:01 > 0:06:05I asked what happened, she said she put her handbrake on
0:06:05 > 0:06:08and come out to open the gate and the car started rolling
0:06:08 > 0:06:12so she jumped in front of the car to try and stop it,
0:06:12 > 0:06:17and obviously wasn't strong enough to stop it and it just dragged her under.
0:06:17 > 0:06:22What we're going to do, OK, I'm going to have a listen to your breathing at the back here.
0:06:22 > 0:06:26The firemen are going to be rattling around you, it's going to be noisy,
0:06:26 > 0:06:28but it's fine.
0:06:28 > 0:06:32Stay calm and we'll have you out as soon as we can, OK, sweetheart?
0:06:32 > 0:06:34It may not be the biggest of cars,
0:06:34 > 0:06:38but a Ford Fiesta still weighs in at over a tonne.
0:06:38 > 0:06:41There's enough of us, can we lift it up manually?
0:06:41 > 0:06:44There's a leg the other side of the tyre.
0:06:45 > 0:06:47Rachel is lucky to be alive.
0:06:48 > 0:06:52She was like, "Please, please, get the car off me,"
0:06:52 > 0:06:55but her leg was on either side of the wheel so I said,
0:06:55 > 0:06:58"I can't reverse the car. It'll go over your leg and if the handbrake snapped,
0:06:58 > 0:07:03"it's going to roll down anyway and it's going to roll over you."
0:07:03 > 0:07:06When I called the ambulance, they said, "Don't move whatever you do"
0:07:06 > 0:07:10but she was like, "Please, please move the car off me"
0:07:10 > 0:07:15But I got the jack out, I said "I can't because if the handbrake snapped it'll roll over your head."
0:07:16 > 0:07:19Keep still, Rachel. Breathe for me, Rachel.
0:07:21 > 0:07:24Graham must find out what injuries Rachel has before anyone
0:07:24 > 0:07:26attempts to move her.
0:07:26 > 0:07:30Before we lift her, do you want a pinny...?
0:07:30 > 0:07:32Yes, that's a good idea.
0:07:32 > 0:07:38She could have serious crush injuries and the car engine is still hot.
0:07:38 > 0:07:42So is the exhaust pipe, which is trapping her pelvis.
0:07:42 > 0:07:46Friends and family can only watch on powerless to help.
0:07:48 > 0:07:51Just let us know when you're ready.
0:07:51 > 0:07:54I think she jumped in front to stop it hitting Meg's car
0:07:54 > 0:07:56and ended up underneath it.
0:07:56 > 0:08:00But it was Meg that was here, we got the call to say she'd had an accident and came over.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02Just hope she's all right.
0:08:02 > 0:08:06We can't just lift it straight off. We need to be sure it's not going to fall any more on you.
0:08:08 > 0:08:14The fire and rescue service train to get people out of crashed cars using heavy cutting gear,
0:08:14 > 0:08:18but this is going to be altogether a much more delicate operation.
0:08:18 > 0:08:22If anyone sees it moving, shout "Stop", it all stops.
0:08:25 > 0:08:28One wrong move and the car's weight could kill their patient.
0:08:28 > 0:08:31The next few minutes will be critical.
0:08:40 > 0:08:43Listen to that - that's real horse power,
0:08:43 > 0:08:47half a ton of thoroughbred moving at 40 miles an hour.
0:08:47 > 0:08:51Race horses are quite simply the most powerful animals on four legs.
0:08:51 > 0:08:54But you need real courage to ride one.
0:08:56 > 0:09:00North Yorkshire is one of the country's horse racing hot spots.
0:09:00 > 0:09:04Thousands descend on the county's nine racecourses throughout the year
0:09:04 > 0:09:06as part of a multi-million pound industry.
0:09:08 > 0:09:11It's big business, and throughout North Yorkshire
0:09:11 > 0:09:15there are dozens of racing stables, paddocks and gallops
0:09:15 > 0:09:18for training some of the best racehorses in the country.
0:09:20 > 0:09:24But today one top jockey has had a serious accident.
0:09:24 > 0:09:28The horse went off at a gallop, tripped, I think, and he's taken a fall.
0:09:28 > 0:09:33He was found face down where we're stood.
0:09:33 > 0:09:38The Helimed paramedics Darren Axe and Pete Vallance are there in minutes.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41A ground paramedic crew has already been treating Stuart Richie.
0:09:43 > 0:09:4633-year-old, on a flat racehorse, came off at high speed. Thrown off.
0:09:46 > 0:09:49- Landed onto his back. - Right.- Pelvic pain.
0:09:49 > 0:09:53I'm querying a pelvic fracture because his legs are painful as well.
0:09:53 > 0:09:56OK. Right, at the moment, how bad is your pain?
0:09:56 > 0:09:57HE MUMBLES
0:09:57 > 0:09:59- It's what, sorry? - Very bad.- Very bad.
0:09:59 > 0:10:02- And it's still in the same region? - Yeah.
0:10:02 > 0:10:05Stuart was thrown off his horse after it refused to stop
0:10:05 > 0:10:06at the end of the gallops.
0:10:06 > 0:10:10It's left him with numbness and a tingling pain in his back -
0:10:10 > 0:10:13a very serious indication of a spinal injury.
0:10:14 > 0:10:17- He's not made any effort to move himself?- No, no.
0:10:17 > 0:10:22We've actually rolled him under controlled circumstances.
0:10:25 > 0:10:28Stuart's trainer is one of the best in the country.
0:10:28 > 0:10:34He's employed by me and he rides five or six racehorses a day.
0:10:34 > 0:10:38Just exercising a mare what he often rides.
0:10:38 > 0:10:40Just a normal day's exercise.
0:10:40 > 0:10:42And she's come off at the end of the gallop
0:10:42 > 0:10:45as opposed to pulling up at the end there, I think.
0:10:47 > 0:10:50And tripped or slipped and they've parted company.
0:10:51 > 0:10:56- The best bet, if I take his head... - Can I have the towels?- Well...
0:10:56 > 0:11:00It seems Stuart may have a serious pelvic injury.
0:11:00 > 0:11:02OK, mate. Bear with us.
0:11:02 > 0:11:05A special splint will help prevent it moving any more.
0:11:05 > 0:11:09- But these contraptions can be agonising to put on.- Head still.
0:11:09 > 0:11:11OK, Stuart.
0:11:12 > 0:11:14OK, mate, bear with us.
0:11:16 > 0:11:17Keep your head still for us.
0:11:17 > 0:11:20He has got extreme pain to the lower back, pelvic region.
0:11:20 > 0:11:23I'm querying whether that's been fractured.
0:11:23 > 0:11:25And pains in his legs with a tingling sensation.
0:11:25 > 0:11:27Your at ten at the moment.
0:11:27 > 0:11:30We spoke to these guys, ten out of ten still.
0:11:30 > 0:11:32It's all round that region, you said, yeah?
0:11:32 > 0:11:35Stuart's been given a full dose of morphine,
0:11:35 > 0:11:38but he is still in excruciating pain.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42Tim, can I have red Flectalon, please, mate?
0:11:42 > 0:11:46He's complaining of severe thoracic back pain, lower thoracic.
0:11:46 > 0:11:49And he's scoring that ten out of ten.
0:11:49 > 0:11:51He's also got some discomfort around his abdomen
0:11:51 > 0:11:54and tenderness around his pelvis as well.
0:11:54 > 0:11:55Sammy, it's Tim.
0:11:55 > 0:11:59We've just loaded the patient up and we're going to take him to Hull Royal.
0:11:59 > 0:12:01Arriving at 9.35am.
0:12:01 > 0:12:05Can you inform security and arrange a secondary transfer, please?
0:12:07 > 0:12:10In his 17 years as a professional jockey,
0:12:10 > 0:12:13this is Stuart's first serious accident.
0:12:13 > 0:12:17But it's one which could now easily mean the end of his career.
0:12:18 > 0:12:22After landing at Hull Royal Infirmary,
0:12:22 > 0:12:24he's still in agonising pain.
0:12:24 > 0:12:29- So is most of your pain there? - Just at the bottom of my back.- Yeah?
0:12:31 > 0:12:35In the next few hours, X-rays will reveal a fracture to Stuart's pelvis,
0:12:35 > 0:12:39an injury so serious, it could prevent him ever getting back in the saddle.
0:12:45 > 0:12:48Stuart is forced to stay in hospital for a week
0:12:48 > 0:12:51and his recovery since then has been very slow.
0:12:52 > 0:12:56I was in a lot of pain for weeks.
0:12:56 > 0:12:58I was on crutches for about a month.
0:12:59 > 0:13:02And obviously I hadn't been awake or anything like that.
0:13:04 > 0:13:08Stuart's now back at work but still on lighter duties.
0:13:08 > 0:13:11It will be some time before he's back on a racehorse,
0:13:11 > 0:13:15thanks to that morning that could so easily have ended his career.
0:13:15 > 0:13:19I don't think the pain stopped until about two weeks later.
0:13:19 > 0:13:22I was on so much drugs when I went to the hospital,
0:13:22 > 0:13:24it was continuously hurting.
0:13:24 > 0:13:26Good girl.
0:13:26 > 0:13:30But now things are looking brighter and Stuart's determined
0:13:30 > 0:13:33to pick up his riding career at the start of next season.
0:13:33 > 0:13:36It's just one of them things, it happens or it doesn't happen.
0:13:36 > 0:13:41It's racing. Hopefully it won't happen again, though. Touch wood.
0:13:52 > 0:13:56Now, let's get back to the Moors, where a young hunter's life
0:13:56 > 0:14:00is in real danger after a serious shooting accident.
0:14:02 > 0:14:05These boots are only a week old, but the blast holes in them
0:14:05 > 0:14:10are the least of 26-year-old Craig Crawford's worries.
0:14:11 > 0:14:14- Number five, something like that. - Sixes, I think.- Sixes.
0:14:14 > 0:14:18There's a load of those, they're pushed out when they're ignited.
0:14:19 > 0:14:23A close range shot has ripped through his lower leg.
0:14:23 > 0:14:26His shooting friends staunched the blood flow with a tourniquet,
0:14:26 > 0:14:30but it's too high up and paramedic Tony Wilks wants to remove it,
0:14:30 > 0:14:33but he's worried heavy bleeding could start again.
0:14:34 > 0:14:37Paramedic Sammy Wills calls a consultant at James Cook Hospital for advice.
0:14:39 > 0:14:40My colleague is enquiring,
0:14:40 > 0:14:46he has had a leather belt utilised as a tourniquet placed on his thigh.
0:14:46 > 0:14:50- Are we OK to release that? - It's been done that way.
0:14:50 > 0:14:53He said there weren't significant bleeding when he put it on.
0:14:53 > 0:14:56Yeah, they're happy for us to do that
0:14:56 > 0:14:59and have a tourniquet ready to reposition lower down if necessary.
0:15:00 > 0:15:04As the belt comes off, blood starts to flow into Craig's leg.
0:15:06 > 0:15:10And, to everyone's relief, the heavy bleeding doesn't start again.
0:15:10 > 0:15:13We'll just pop your leg in a splint, all right?
0:15:13 > 0:15:15It just makes it a bit easier for us to move.
0:15:15 > 0:15:17The day's shooting was coming to an end,
0:15:17 > 0:15:21but a full cartridge of pellets has been emptied into Craig's lower leg.
0:15:23 > 0:15:25He could still lose it.
0:15:25 > 0:15:30He's remarkably calm to say he's had the lower leg of his leg blown off.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33The guys have put a tourniquet on,
0:15:33 > 0:15:36which essentially would be the right thing,
0:15:36 > 0:15:38but it was a little bit too high.
0:15:38 > 0:15:41The bleeding has reduced and simplified, thankfully.
0:15:41 > 0:15:43Doing really, really well.
0:15:46 > 0:15:48That's it. Then it's feet first onto the stretcher.
0:15:50 > 0:15:52The James Cook Hospital in Middlesbrough
0:15:52 > 0:15:57is the destination now and the emergency team there is on standby.
0:15:57 > 0:16:03From 99, patient is packaged, a call has been placed for James Cook, over.
0:16:09 > 0:16:12Right, good. Just going to hook you onto that.
0:16:12 > 0:16:16Helimed 99 will get him there in ten minutes.
0:16:16 > 0:16:20But without reconstructive surgery, he could lose his leg.
0:16:30 > 0:16:33Remember the young motorist trapped under her own car
0:16:33 > 0:16:36after a freak accident in West Yorkshire?
0:16:36 > 0:16:39The delicate operation to free her is about to begin,
0:16:39 > 0:16:41but it's not without risk.
0:16:41 > 0:16:45- You have to lift at the start. - OK, let them know.
0:16:45 > 0:16:49If it moves inches in any direction, it will break her ankles
0:16:49 > 0:16:52and cause serious injuries.
0:16:53 > 0:16:57Will it hold there, now? Fabulous, that's created...
0:16:57 > 0:17:03The only safe way for the fire service to get her out is to jack up the car.
0:17:04 > 0:17:06Try and get a bit more out of the airbags.
0:17:06 > 0:17:08We should be right there, lads.
0:17:08 > 0:17:11With a combination of inflatable cushions and heavy duty chocks,
0:17:11 > 0:17:15they lift the car inches off the ground.
0:17:15 > 0:17:17Well done, my love, we've got you.
0:17:17 > 0:17:19Despite having the full weight of the car on top of her,
0:17:19 > 0:17:25paramedic Graham believes Rachael may have got away without any major breaks.
0:17:25 > 0:17:29- I think this pelvis is intact, you know.- I think you've got to...
0:17:29 > 0:17:31But only a scan will reveal what's really going on
0:17:31 > 0:17:34and paramedics always play safe.
0:17:36 > 0:17:40The whole of her car engine block weight was resting on her pelvis.
0:17:40 > 0:17:42Obviously we're concerned about the integrity of her pelvis.
0:17:42 > 0:17:45All of her obs are normal, but it's just obviously with
0:17:45 > 0:17:48the mechanism of that heavy weight lying on her pelvis
0:17:48 > 0:17:51and the exhaust manifold has burned her pelvis a little bit.
0:17:51 > 0:17:54We're going to take her down the LGI and make sure her pelvis is still intact.
0:17:54 > 0:17:57Her rescuers can scarcely believe
0:17:57 > 0:18:03that the first examination of Rachael has revealed little more serious than a burn.
0:18:03 > 0:18:07Neither can the waiting medical team at Leeds General Infirmary.
0:18:08 > 0:18:12Doctors consider what they call the mechanism of injury when working out
0:18:12 > 0:18:15how badly injured their patients are likely to be
0:18:15 > 0:18:19and the story of Rachael's accident suggests she should be seriously hurt.
0:18:19 > 0:18:21The handbrake's failed
0:18:21 > 0:18:27and she's tried to stop it from rolling down an incline herself.
0:18:27 > 0:18:31She's come to stop with the engine block resting on this part of her pelvis.
0:18:31 > 0:18:36Amazingly, the Helimed team's first assessment was correct.
0:18:36 > 0:18:38Despite supporting the full weight of her hatchback
0:18:38 > 0:18:43for more than half an hour, Rachael has only minor injuries.
0:18:43 > 0:18:46And, a couple of days later, the news of Rachael
0:18:46 > 0:18:50and her runaway car has hit the local newspaper.
0:18:52 > 0:18:56Top half, I'm really lucky, I've just got a few bruises, really.
0:18:56 > 0:19:00My hip where my burn was, they've cut the burn out
0:19:00 > 0:19:05and then stitched me together so I'm going to have a scar across my hip.
0:19:05 > 0:19:08Legs bruised but nothing that hopefully won't heal.
0:19:08 > 0:19:12And my ankle, I had to have a stitch or two in my ankle, I think,
0:19:12 > 0:19:14because there was a small wound on there.
0:19:14 > 0:19:16But other than that, I've been really lucky.
0:19:17 > 0:19:19I remember being at the gate and thinking,
0:19:19 > 0:19:23"I'm going to have to jump over it or something."
0:19:23 > 0:19:27But the force of the car burst the gate open
0:19:27 > 0:19:30and then I don't remember... From the gate being burst open,
0:19:30 > 0:19:34I don't remember from there to realising I was underneath the car.
0:19:34 > 0:19:36I remember screaming for Megan.
0:19:37 > 0:19:41And then Megan coming out and she was obviously horrified.
0:19:41 > 0:19:43All right, Rachael? How are you doing?
0:19:43 > 0:19:45I want to get the car off me.
0:19:45 > 0:19:48I'm sure you do, sweetheart! We'll have it off as soon as we can, OK?
0:19:48 > 0:19:50'I remember hundreds...'
0:19:50 > 0:19:55Well, it felt like hundreds of people, lots of faces whizzing around me.
0:19:55 > 0:19:58I was really lucky and I'm grateful to everyone that was there.
0:20:05 > 0:20:09The men and women who fly in this helicopter know that every
0:20:09 > 0:20:12working day they take a calculated risk with their lives.
0:20:12 > 0:20:15But many workplace accidents happen in jobs you'd think
0:20:15 > 0:20:19were much safer than flying around at 150mph.
0:20:22 > 0:20:26There's plenty of rich green pasture in the Yorkshire Dales,
0:20:26 > 0:20:30but these are difficult times for its many hill farmers.
0:20:31 > 0:20:34Profits are down, margins are tight,
0:20:34 > 0:20:36and a bit of farmyard DIY can save money.
0:20:38 > 0:20:43But for one Dales farmer, climbing up onto his barn roof to fix a hole
0:20:43 > 0:20:46has led to a terrible fall.
0:20:46 > 0:20:48Out the way, cows. No, don't go that way.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53The trouble is, the cows below are exactly where Chris wants to land.
0:20:55 > 0:20:58- I've got two coming down my end. - Come on!
0:20:58 > 0:21:02He uses Helimed 99 to encourage them to move away.
0:21:02 > 0:21:04It's a trick he's used before.
0:21:04 > 0:21:08- Aw, bless.- Watch out, there's an electric fence, guys.- Got it.
0:21:08 > 0:21:09No worries.
0:21:09 > 0:21:12Hence why the cows didn't go that way!
0:21:13 > 0:21:17Ground paramedics have already arrived.
0:21:17 > 0:21:19They were so worried about 54-year-old farmer
0:21:19 > 0:21:23Robert Butterfield that they requested the helicopter's help.
0:21:23 > 0:21:25Hi, Robert, how are we doing? I'm James.
0:21:25 > 0:21:29- Another paramedic. How are we doing? - All right.- What's been happening?
0:21:29 > 0:21:30I think I've fallen through the roof.
0:21:30 > 0:21:33I think you HAVE fallen through the roof. What's sore?
0:21:33 > 0:21:37- Here.- What's sore? - My back and my right hip.
0:21:37 > 0:21:39Your back and your right hip? OK.
0:21:39 > 0:21:41We'll just have a quick listen to your chest.
0:21:41 > 0:21:44He's a big man and he has fallen 20 feet
0:21:44 > 0:21:47onto the concrete floor of the barn.
0:21:47 > 0:21:49Injuries, top to toe, it's all lower back and pelvis.
0:21:49 > 0:21:52And behind that right shoulder he's complaining of.
0:21:52 > 0:21:55He is lucky to be alive but he is seriously injured.
0:21:57 > 0:22:01I just heard a crack of the skylight breaking or something.
0:22:01 > 0:22:04I wondered what it was so I turned around and the next thing
0:22:04 > 0:22:08I saw was the farmer laid on the floor, on his side,
0:22:08 > 0:22:12and we spent ages trying to keep him still until everybody came.
0:22:12 > 0:22:16- How long was he unconscious for? - Two or three minutes.
0:22:16 > 0:22:18Two or three minutes.
0:22:18 > 0:22:21Robert, this will feel a little bit strange, mate, just a bit of pain.
0:22:21 > 0:22:25- Well done, well done. - Hold on.- Another one.
0:22:26 > 0:22:31- Dales farmers are a tough lot. - OK, walk with me.
0:22:31 > 0:22:35But a broken pelvis can lead to complications that can be fatal.
0:22:35 > 0:22:38OK, it is a bit slippy on this last little bit,
0:22:38 > 0:22:39just be careful as you go down.
0:22:39 > 0:22:44A worrying sign is that Robert's heart is racing.
0:22:44 > 0:22:46Tachycardia can be deadly.
0:22:46 > 0:22:50Still tachy at one, two, three, and GCS is 15 at present.
0:22:50 > 0:22:58It's cannulated and we will be with you in approximately 10-15 minutes.
0:22:58 > 0:23:01Robert, I'm going to leave you now, sweetheart, OK?
0:23:01 > 0:23:03These lovely people will look after you.
0:23:03 > 0:23:07Robert's family have farmed these fields for decades.
0:23:07 > 0:23:09His father is understandably concerned.
0:23:09 > 0:23:13Jump up, Dad. There's nowt to worry about. He's awake.
0:23:13 > 0:23:16We're only taking him by helicopter because of where you are.
0:23:16 > 0:23:18There's nowt to worry about.
0:23:20 > 0:23:23Helimed 99 is flying out of Yorkshire
0:23:23 > 0:23:25into the neighbouring county of Lancashire.
0:23:25 > 0:23:29Robert is taken into intensive care at Lancaster.
0:23:29 > 0:23:33Sadly, his already critical condition deteriorates.
0:23:35 > 0:23:38His lungs collapse, he is placed on a ventilator
0:23:38 > 0:23:41and kept in an induced coma for four weeks.
0:23:49 > 0:23:53They say that cows react badly when their routine is altered
0:23:53 > 0:23:55and they don't produce as much milk.
0:23:57 > 0:24:01Robert's cows waited a long time for his return.
0:24:01 > 0:24:04But several weeks later, he's back in the cowshed,
0:24:04 > 0:24:07but on doctor's orders to take it easy.
0:24:08 > 0:24:12I was given a chance in the single figures of survival.
0:24:13 > 0:24:16It was very, very doubtful I was going to make it.
0:24:17 > 0:24:22But to me, it wasn't so bad.
0:24:22 > 0:24:26But for the wife and family, I think it had been terrible.
0:24:27 > 0:24:29Encouraged by his nurses,
0:24:29 > 0:24:33Robert's family compiled a moving diary of his fight for life.
0:24:33 > 0:24:36Against the odds, it had a happy ending.
0:24:37 > 0:24:40Another thing Robert and his herd have something to be grateful for
0:24:40 > 0:24:43is the local air ambulance.
0:24:44 > 0:24:48The air ambulance is a fantastic tool
0:24:48 > 0:24:52for people that live away from the hospitals and that.
0:24:52 > 0:24:55They said I was five-and-a-half minutes
0:24:55 > 0:25:00from leaving home to being at Lancaster Hospital.
0:25:00 > 0:25:03And I think without them, I probably wouldn't have made it.
0:25:05 > 0:25:07If you have a job, you've probably been
0:25:07 > 0:25:09on a training course of some kind
0:25:09 > 0:25:13and some companies spend thousands on team-building days.
0:25:13 > 0:25:15But even they can be risky.
0:25:19 > 0:25:21Out-manouevring your colleagues,
0:25:21 > 0:25:25intimidating the office junior and driving the boss round the bend
0:25:25 > 0:25:30are all skills that are positively encouraged here on the go-kart track.
0:25:31 > 0:25:35This is where some firms bring their staff to bond.
0:25:35 > 0:25:39But today a high-speed team-building exercise has gone wrong.
0:25:41 > 0:25:45RADIO: Helimed 99. Cleared the cross runway 14
0:25:45 > 0:25:48direct north from your current position to avoid the vortex
0:25:48 > 0:25:50from the departing Dash 8.
0:25:50 > 0:25:54It's actually that kart track on the airfield there?
0:25:54 > 0:25:59Yeah, that's right. Just the far end, isn't it?
0:25:59 > 0:26:01Should be this side of it. Yeah.
0:26:01 > 0:26:04It's a site the flying paramedics know well
0:26:04 > 0:26:07and it's certainly easy to spot from 2,000 feet up.
0:26:07 > 0:26:10The ambulance is just arriving.
0:26:10 > 0:26:13I think that'll be the slowest time of the day
0:26:13 > 0:26:15- with the ambulance coming round that circuit.- Yeah.
0:26:15 > 0:26:19The air ambulance pilots have landed in some unusual places,
0:26:19 > 0:26:21but this is a first for pilot Chris Attrill...
0:26:21 > 0:26:24putting down right in the middle of the racetrack.
0:26:24 > 0:26:28Got his arm up over on the other side.
0:26:28 > 0:26:31Watch out. There's going to be some hi-vis jackets blowing here.
0:26:31 > 0:26:35OK. So, we'll keep a good left. Just coming down.
0:26:35 > 0:26:37- He's had a collision on a go-kart.- Right.
0:26:37 > 0:26:40He's been ejected from the go-kart.
0:26:40 > 0:26:43- Right.- Haven't yet managed to ascertain the speed or anything.
0:26:43 > 0:26:45Charlie Gaffney had nearly finished his race
0:26:45 > 0:26:47when he was caught up in a pile-up
0:26:47 > 0:26:50at one of the trickiest parts of the course.
0:26:50 > 0:26:53Somebody in front of him slowing down, or a bit slower
0:26:53 > 0:26:56than what he was going. He had to slam on, panicked, spun around.
0:26:56 > 0:26:59Kart in front was still going as fast as it could.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01Both of them belted out. I'm sure he's hit his knee.
0:27:01 > 0:27:05- So has he gone in backwards or come out forwards?- Um...
0:27:05 > 0:27:07As they've both hit, he sort of went forwards
0:27:07 > 0:27:09- and then backwards, then came out the side.- Right.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11He's come out sideways.
0:27:11 > 0:27:15Charlie's outstretched leg took the full force of the impact.
0:27:15 > 0:27:17Both the bones are badly broken.
0:27:17 > 0:27:20- Are we box-splinting this ankle? - I think so.
0:27:20 > 0:27:22I was going to wait till we get some analgesia in him.
0:27:22 > 0:27:25It's quite a fun part of the circuit,
0:27:25 > 0:27:27but obviously it's quite a dangerous part as well.
0:27:27 > 0:27:30If something goes wrong, it could end up like this.
0:27:31 > 0:27:36He spun off, collided and then just came out of his kart.
0:27:36 > 0:27:39Immediately, I stopped the race.
0:27:39 > 0:27:44The ground crew has given Charlie Entonox, a pain-killing gas.
0:27:44 > 0:27:48But it's doing little to numb his agonising pain.
0:27:48 > 0:27:52So flying Doctor Simon Ward decides to give him something stronger.
0:27:52 > 0:27:56How's that pain doing? Just the same? Bit better? Bit worse?
0:27:56 > 0:27:58Still ten out of ten.
0:27:58 > 0:28:00This shouldn't make you feel sick.
0:28:00 > 0:28:02It might make you feel a little bit light-headed. OK?
0:28:02 > 0:28:05I'm just going to give you it slowly because of your kidneys.
0:28:05 > 0:28:08The track-side tyres certainly did their job,
0:28:08 > 0:28:09cushioning the impact.
0:28:09 > 0:28:13But the collision has left him pebble-dashed with tyre particles.
0:28:13 > 0:28:15Charlie, rest your hand onto there for me.
0:28:15 > 0:28:19We're going to put a splint on your leg. You don't do any moving.
0:28:19 > 0:28:24Let us do it because then it won't be sore. All right?
0:28:24 > 0:28:27I'm just going to turn you at the knee.
0:28:27 > 0:28:30HE GROANS
0:28:30 > 0:28:34This disused Second World War airfield is a long way from hospital
0:28:34 > 0:28:38and Charlie will need specialist surgery to save his leg.
0:28:38 > 0:28:42- Can you feel me touching your toes? - I can, yeah. Yeah.
0:28:44 > 0:28:48So he's soon being flown to the specialist trauma centre
0:28:48 > 0:28:51at Leeds General Infirmary,
0:28:51 > 0:28:54a flight that lasts just seven minutes.
0:28:54 > 0:28:58Below the rooftop helipad, one of the country's top
0:28:58 > 0:29:02orthopaedic surgeons is standing by to work on Charlie's shattered leg.
0:29:02 > 0:29:06But it's clear there will be no speedy recovery.
0:29:09 > 0:29:13They told me ten years ago, I probably would have lost my leg.
0:29:13 > 0:29:15The femur was broken
0:29:15 > 0:29:20clean in one place and offset and the actual tibia was broken
0:29:20 > 0:29:23in five places, like a concertina.
0:29:23 > 0:29:26So many small pieces.
0:29:26 > 0:29:30Charlie's going to be wearing this special frame for the next 12 months,
0:29:30 > 0:29:35a reminder of the team-building day that went so badly wrong.
0:29:35 > 0:29:39I remember the sound of the cars crashing and my leg...
0:29:39 > 0:29:43I could feel it go instantly,
0:29:43 > 0:29:45the pain was instant and I was thrown out of the vehicle
0:29:45 > 0:29:49and not too much after that.
0:29:49 > 0:29:51Sadly, the team-building day has left Charlie
0:29:51 > 0:29:53less familiar with his colleagues.
0:29:53 > 0:29:57His injury has meant months off work.
0:29:58 > 0:30:02When the Helimed pilots come to work they need a head for heights,
0:30:02 > 0:30:05not in the way you'd expect. Checking the rotor blades
0:30:05 > 0:30:09and gearbox means climbing up to ten feet above the ground.
0:30:09 > 0:30:13And safety experts will tell you that working at heights
0:30:13 > 0:30:16is statistically more dangerous than flying for a living.
0:30:18 > 0:30:24Across the country, nearly 200,000 people spend their working lives
0:30:24 > 0:30:26high off the ground keeping our windows sparkling.
0:30:26 > 0:30:29But when you've got a squeegee in one hand
0:30:29 > 0:30:32and a bucket in the other, gravity can easily get the better of you.
0:30:32 > 0:30:37Every year dozens of window cleaners end up seriously injured.
0:30:39 > 0:30:44This looks to be a location within the town as well.
0:30:44 > 0:30:48That'll be interesting. Not that it's a big place.
0:30:48 > 0:30:52The Helimed team are heading to Holme on Spalding Moor.
0:30:52 > 0:30:55It's a small village in the Yorkshire Wolds.
0:30:55 > 0:31:00Crossroads in the middle of town.
0:31:00 > 0:31:03Their patient has fallen off his ladder as he was cleaning
0:31:03 > 0:31:06the windows of the village pub.
0:31:06 > 0:31:09We are on the ground, just making our way around now.
0:31:09 > 0:31:14We've been unable to land by the ambulance due to lack of space.
0:31:14 > 0:31:18We've got reports of someone fallen off a ladder.
0:31:18 > 0:31:21Sustained back and head injuries.
0:31:21 > 0:31:25- Sorry we couldn't get any closer. - It's all right.- How are we doing?
0:31:25 > 0:31:28Niall Craven's symptoms are worrying the land crew.
0:31:28 > 0:31:34He's confused and repeating himself. But there are other signs which could be even more significant.
0:31:34 > 0:31:38He's got C spine tenderness, right at the top of his C spine.
0:31:38 > 0:31:41- Tingling to both hands, but no hyperventilation at all.- OK.
0:31:41 > 0:31:45- Is that still present, the tingling the in your hands now?- Yeah.
0:31:45 > 0:31:47- It is?- It just happened so fast.
0:31:47 > 0:31:49I was literally doing the doors
0:31:49 > 0:31:54and then all of a sudden he was down in seconds.
0:31:54 > 0:31:55It happened so quickly.
0:31:55 > 0:31:59Just hearing the ladder move and then I actually reacted
0:31:59 > 0:32:00and he was down on the floor.
0:32:00 > 0:32:06Holme on Spalding Moor is a small place and news travels fast.
0:32:06 > 0:32:10Niall's mum Brenda has just sprinted the length of the village to see her son.
0:32:10 > 0:32:12He's a window cleaner and his partner
0:32:12 > 0:32:17rang me up to say he'd fallen off the ladders and had banged his head.
0:32:17 > 0:32:19I thought, "He'll be OK."
0:32:19 > 0:32:22Then when I heard you going round in the air ambulance, I thought,
0:32:22 > 0:32:25"Oh no, better get down there."
0:32:25 > 0:32:29It's your daddy, isn't it?
0:32:29 > 0:32:31With the helicopter over on the other side of the village,
0:32:31 > 0:32:35it means a short trip in the ambulance for Niall.
0:32:35 > 0:32:37But this is a crucial time for Pete to find out
0:32:37 > 0:32:42- not just what's happened but how much of it Niall can remember. - Do you know where you are now then?
0:32:42 > 0:32:47- Do you know where you've fallen off the ladder? - Yeah, at the pub, The Red Lion.
0:32:47 > 0:32:50And how long had you been working up the ladder?
0:32:52 > 0:32:55I honestly couldn't tell you.
0:32:55 > 0:32:58Can you remember falling off or anything surrounding the accident?
0:32:58 > 0:33:00- I can't remember anything. - After the accident,
0:33:00 > 0:33:02how soon can you recollect anything?
0:33:02 > 0:33:04Um...
0:33:05 > 0:33:10- I can remember my nephew holding my neck.- Yeah. That's good.
0:33:10 > 0:33:14And that's about it.
0:33:14 > 0:33:17Brenda and Ethan, Niall's two-year-old son,
0:33:17 > 0:33:21have raced back across the village to stay by his side.
0:33:21 > 0:33:23Can you remember everything now?
0:33:25 > 0:33:28At Ethan's age, it's difficult to take all this in.
0:33:28 > 0:33:31And fortunately, he seems more interested
0:33:31 > 0:33:34in the big yellow helicopter than his dad's serious injuries.
0:33:34 > 0:33:36Daddy going.
0:33:36 > 0:33:40He's going to get better, isn't he? He'll be better.
0:33:40 > 0:33:46- Yeah.- Yeah.- Door.- That's a door. Yeah, it is, isn't it?
0:33:46 > 0:33:50I've got a 30-year-old male.
0:33:50 > 0:33:52He's fallen from a ladder,
0:33:52 > 0:33:56injuring his head and his back.
0:33:56 > 0:33:59It's not just details about what's happened that Niall's forgotten.
0:33:59 > 0:34:02He's even struggling to recall his own address.
0:34:02 > 0:34:05So you've lived there are a couple of years, you can't remember where?
0:34:05 > 0:34:07I'm like that when I've been to the pub...
0:34:07 > 0:34:11Pete may be joking but he's aware this could be a sign of a serious head injury.
0:34:11 > 0:34:15- Bye, daddy. Love you. - Too.- Too. Yeah.
0:34:19 > 0:34:24The Hull Royal Infirmary is a specialist trauma centre.
0:34:24 > 0:34:26Here, doctors are waiting to do
0:34:26 > 0:34:29a detailed scan of Niall's brain and back.
0:34:29 > 0:34:34But incredibly, Niall doesn't stay here very long.
0:34:34 > 0:34:36The next day, he's on his way home.
0:34:36 > 0:34:39And just a week later, he's back at work.
0:34:41 > 0:34:45His fall left him with nothing more than a few bad bruises.
0:34:45 > 0:34:48I think it's better the fact that I didn't remember anything
0:34:48 > 0:34:53cos if I had then maybe it would have made me a bit wary of the ladders.
0:34:53 > 0:34:57But I was back up on Thursday after the accident so back to normal.
0:34:57 > 0:35:01For a two-year-old, seeing your dad strapped to a board
0:35:01 > 0:35:05being loaded into a helicopter could have been a pretty scary sight.
0:35:05 > 0:35:09But it seems Ethan's been pretty impressed with his dad's adventure.
0:35:09 > 0:35:12Will you help me clean? You wipe this bit, here.
0:35:12 > 0:35:17'He told the nursery workers that Daddy's gone in the helicopter.'
0:35:17 > 0:35:20Yeah. He's happy enough with it.
0:35:20 > 0:35:21And so is Niall.
0:35:21 > 0:35:25But this time being just that bit more careful.
0:35:25 > 0:35:30Among the most dangerous places to work is a food factory.
0:35:30 > 0:35:34The combination of fast-moving machinery, slippery surfaces
0:35:34 > 0:35:39and knives is an ideal recipe for an accident.
0:35:41 > 0:35:45500,000 workers in the UK come from Eastern Europe.
0:35:45 > 0:35:49And the port city of Hull is home to a large community
0:35:49 > 0:35:53of skilled overseas staff working in the local food industry.
0:35:53 > 0:35:56But when there's an industrial accident,
0:35:56 > 0:35:59the language barrier can throw up unexpected problems
0:35:59 > 0:36:01for the emergency services.
0:36:01 > 0:36:04And Helimed 99 is about to fly straight into them.
0:36:04 > 0:36:08- VOICE ON RADIO:- Helimed 99, just under five minutes.
0:36:09 > 0:36:1299 - roger. Five minutes.
0:36:12 > 0:36:15A ground ambulance crew has found a Lithuanian worker
0:36:15 > 0:36:17trapped by her hand in machinery.
0:36:17 > 0:36:23The lady was doing some chicken packing on a conveyor belt.
0:36:23 > 0:36:25The chickens go on a long belt, going across.
0:36:25 > 0:36:30As they were hooking it on, she'd caught her arm in the top.
0:36:30 > 0:36:34It's on like a spiking system, where they hang the feet on.
0:36:34 > 0:36:36It's just basically gone straight through her wrist,
0:36:36 > 0:36:39protruding onto the other side and dragged her along.
0:36:39 > 0:36:43Luckily, the managers pushed the alarm bell and kept it there.
0:36:43 > 0:36:48Inside the ambulance, Inga Mitalaiki is suffering terrible pain.
0:36:48 > 0:36:50The hand contains more nerve endings
0:36:50 > 0:36:54than almost any other part of the human body.
0:36:54 > 0:36:57And hers is still impaled on part of the machine.
0:36:57 > 0:37:01- I know you don't speak so much English.- Little.- Little? OK.
0:37:03 > 0:37:07Inga's English is basic but a colleague has been translating.
0:37:07 > 0:37:11SHE SPEAKS IN NATIVE LANGUAGE
0:37:11 > 0:37:16- Which portion is actually stuck in?- This, this, this.
0:37:16 > 0:37:19- And these two fingers. - And the two fingers as well?
0:37:19 > 0:37:22- The little one and that one here. - On this hand?
0:37:22 > 0:37:25- Yeah, on the left hand. And I think they're broken.- OK.
0:37:25 > 0:37:28The team's concerned about infection.
0:37:28 > 0:37:32Chicken offal often carries lethal bacteria.
0:37:32 > 0:37:36She's got a raw chicken on her hands. I need to give her a good scrub.
0:37:38 > 0:37:43500 accidents like this occur in Britain's food factories every year.
0:37:43 > 0:37:47One in three workers killed at work was employed in the business.
0:37:47 > 0:37:49Police are often called to gather evidence
0:37:49 > 0:37:52for the Health and Safety Executive.
0:37:52 > 0:37:55The biggest difficulty that we face at the moment is trying to understand
0:37:55 > 0:38:00what she's done, how she's done it, how she's feeling, where the pain is.
0:38:00 > 0:38:05And there is a chap in there who's translating as best as they can,
0:38:05 > 0:38:08but the language barrier is probably the biggest difficulty
0:38:08 > 0:38:11that we're facing at the moment, trying to assess the lady.
0:38:11 > 0:38:15Inga's injury will require plastic surgery.
0:38:15 > 0:38:20Hospital doctors will dose her with antibiotics to combat infection.
0:38:20 > 0:38:22The young lady had already been extricated,
0:38:22 > 0:38:25but she still has a piece of machinery attached to her arm
0:38:25 > 0:38:27and a couple of fingers.
0:38:27 > 0:38:29She's broken fingers on her other hand as well,
0:38:29 > 0:38:31because she's had both hands in the machinery.
0:38:31 > 0:38:35We've just been dealing with her pain, to start off with.
0:38:36 > 0:38:39- RADIO:- Squawking ident, Helimed 99.
0:38:39 > 0:38:42INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER
0:38:42 > 0:38:47I'll be routing the aircraft into Hull Royal...
0:38:47 > 0:38:51She's being flown direct to the trauma unit at Hull Royal Infirmary,
0:38:51 > 0:38:53where surgeons are particularly experienced
0:38:53 > 0:38:56in dealing with the effects of factory accidents.
0:38:56 > 0:39:01Since the city became the home of the fish finger 60 years ago,
0:39:01 > 0:39:04it's been a major player in food processing.
0:39:04 > 0:39:08Patient's not feeling too good now, guys.
0:39:09 > 0:39:13In a few minutes, surgeons will begin to assess Inga's injuries
0:39:13 > 0:39:17and work out how to remove the production-line component
0:39:17 > 0:39:18still attached to her hand.
0:39:20 > 0:39:23The good news is, she recovers well from surgery
0:39:23 > 0:39:27but is yet to return to work in the factory.
0:39:28 > 0:39:30The employees hurt at work, there.
0:39:30 > 0:39:33And, I'm pleased to say, all are now on the road to recovery.
0:39:33 > 0:39:35But in hospital on Teesside,
0:39:35 > 0:39:40the outlook for one of the Helimed team's patients is less certain.
0:39:42 > 0:39:45Helimed 99 is arriving at James Cook Hospital
0:39:45 > 0:39:47with gunshot victim Craig Crawford.
0:39:49 > 0:39:53The gentleman's been out today on some sort of pheasant shoot.
0:39:53 > 0:39:56Coming back to the cars, he's been shot in the leg.
0:39:56 > 0:40:01Accidentally, but nonetheless, he's got a nasty hole in his left calf.
0:40:01 > 0:40:04So hopefully there's not too many pellets in it.
0:40:04 > 0:40:07But he's going to need some sort of reconstruction.
0:40:07 > 0:40:10I'm not sure about muscle loss, but it's a definite hole.
0:40:10 > 0:40:1426-year-old Craig has an urgent appointment with a leg surgeon.
0:40:16 > 0:40:18The shotgun cartridge that they showed me
0:40:18 > 0:40:22had size six pellets in, multiple little ball bearings.
0:40:22 > 0:40:2532 grams worth has actually gone into his leg.
0:40:25 > 0:40:29It looks like it's sideswiped and taken the muscle and skin away.
0:40:29 > 0:40:31I'm not sure that his leg's broken.
0:40:31 > 0:40:34There is that potential, so we splinted it anyway.
0:40:36 > 0:40:41The operation to save his leg begins straight away.
0:40:41 > 0:40:43He needed to attend theatre the same day
0:40:43 > 0:40:48where we cleaned all his wounds. We had the general anaesthetic.
0:40:48 > 0:40:52I believe about 20 odd pellets were removed from his leg.
0:40:52 > 0:40:55He lost a significant amount of his muscle.
0:40:55 > 0:40:57It left him, essentially, with a big hole
0:40:57 > 0:41:01and a lot of pellets impregnated in his leg.
0:41:01 > 0:41:06Craig remains in the James Cook Hospital for several days.
0:41:06 > 0:41:08The shot had missed his bones by inches.
0:41:08 > 0:41:13It was a near miss that means his leg is still there.
0:41:14 > 0:41:17One of my friends was there, unloading his gun.
0:41:17 > 0:41:21Something happened with the safety catch and it went straight off.
0:41:21 > 0:41:24That was it, really.
0:41:24 > 0:41:27I just looked down and seen the hole through my welly,
0:41:27 > 0:41:30hopped about for a bit, and went on the floor
0:41:30 > 0:41:32and then my friend carried us over to the cars.
0:41:32 > 0:41:37Next thing I knew, the helicopter and everything was there, really.
0:41:38 > 0:41:41He's very lucky, actually.
0:41:42 > 0:41:45Just missed most things by a few millimetres.
0:41:45 > 0:41:49Craig's sister was first to hear the news that he'd been shot.
0:41:51 > 0:41:54The first phone call was off mine and Craig's mam
0:41:54 > 0:41:58saying, "Don't panic, don't panic, Craig's been shot."
0:41:58 > 0:42:02Then obviously, as soon as you hear that, the panic sets in straightaway.
0:42:02 > 0:42:05They hadn't mentioned where he'd been shot.
0:42:05 > 0:42:08Obviously we were absolutely distraught.
0:42:08 > 0:42:11"Where is it, are we fatal?"
0:42:11 > 0:42:16He was incredibly lucky that the injury did not involve his bone.
0:42:18 > 0:42:23Overall, I feel he's very lucky to be walking with this sort of injury.
0:42:23 > 0:42:25He needed reconstruction.
0:42:25 > 0:42:28We took some skin from his left thigh
0:42:28 > 0:42:31and used it to patch it up his left leg, really.
0:42:31 > 0:42:34It has taken away a significant portion of your muscle.
0:42:34 > 0:42:38Which, functionally, I think in the long run
0:42:38 > 0:42:40shouldn't cause you too much of a problem.
0:42:40 > 0:42:42You have to be patient with it.
0:42:42 > 0:42:45And you'll be pleased to hear Craig's now back on his feet,
0:42:45 > 0:42:48although he'll always bear the scars of his gunshot wound.
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