0:00:03 > 0:00:06When the people of rural Yorkshire dial 999,
0:00:06 > 0:00:09help can be a long time coming.
0:00:09 > 0:00:12The Yorkshire Dales are as beautiful as they are big,
0:00:12 > 0:00:16but if you're seriously injured in a landscape as gigantic as this,
0:00:16 > 0:00:18your life is on the line.
0:00:19 > 0:00:22But in the remotest parts of Britain's biggest county,
0:00:22 > 0:00:27- they look to the skies for help. - Look on your left.
0:00:27 > 0:00:30Can you get in that grass field on your left? Go for that.
0:00:30 > 0:00:34From high drama in the Peaks to high waters in the Dales,
0:00:34 > 0:00:38the Helimed team's at the heart of almost every rescue,
0:00:38 > 0:00:42bringing 21st-century medicine to some of Britain's
0:00:42 > 0:00:46most isolated communities, and saving lives against the odds.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56Today on Helicopter Heroes,
0:00:56 > 0:01:00the team flies in to help with a first aider who became a life-saver.
0:01:00 > 0:01:02Eric? Eric? Eric!
0:01:03 > 0:01:07If I hadn't known what to do, Eric wouldn't be here today.
0:01:07 > 0:01:09Thank you isn't enough.
0:01:09 > 0:01:12There's a race against the tide
0:01:12 > 0:01:14to save a little girl hurt at the seaside.
0:01:14 > 0:01:17It's going to be under water in about 15, 20 minutes.
0:01:17 > 0:01:22- We're going to get you sorted, OK? - And the biker who broke 43 bones.
0:01:22 > 0:01:25I heard the bang and he come flying over the top.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28He's had quite a significant impact into this car which has turned
0:01:28 > 0:01:31right, and he's been ejected and landed in this place.
0:01:38 > 0:01:42It takes years of training to qualify as a paramedic, but a few
0:01:42 > 0:01:47hours in a classroom can be enough to teach you how to save a life.
0:01:47 > 0:01:50And every day, the Helimed team meets ordinary members of the public
0:01:50 > 0:01:54who've put first-aid lessons into action.
0:01:56 > 0:01:58It takes just two minutes
0:01:58 > 0:02:00for the Helimed team to be ready for take off.
0:02:01 > 0:02:06Engage, three greens. It's a normal 950 on the fuel.
0:02:06 > 0:02:10But if you are alone and in cardiac arrest,
0:02:10 > 0:02:13it's probably already too late to save you.
0:02:13 > 0:02:14We've got a crew request
0:02:14 > 0:02:17in a power station in Doncaster, South Yorkshire,
0:02:17 > 0:02:19for a male who's in cardiac arrest.
0:02:19 > 0:02:21Could be that the patient's been electrocuted
0:02:21 > 0:02:23or a myocardial heart problem.
0:02:25 > 0:02:27Thanks to a colleague trained to use CPR,
0:02:27 > 0:02:31the team's patient still has a chance.
0:02:31 > 0:02:37- RADIO:- "Just an update from scene. Patient has had a return of ROSC."
0:02:37 > 0:02:42Good lad, well done. Well done.
0:02:43 > 0:02:48It's great news. ROSC means "return of spontaneous circulation".
0:02:48 > 0:02:52Fewer than 5% of people given CPR survive,
0:02:52 > 0:02:55and this patient's just become one of them.
0:02:55 > 0:02:58Can you just confirm if the patient's packaged on a scoop?
0:02:59 > 0:03:02But the team knows he's also likely to arrest again
0:03:02 > 0:03:06if he doesn't receive prompt hospital treatment.
0:03:06 > 0:03:09- Eric?- Eric?- Eric!
0:03:09 > 0:03:1355-year-old demolition worker Eric Wells is lucky to be alive.
0:03:13 > 0:03:17If it weren't for his colleague Sean Hewitt, he would have died.
0:03:17 > 0:03:19Well, he were sat over there.
0:03:19 > 0:03:22Kept going hot, cold, hot, cold, laid on the floor.
0:03:22 > 0:03:25And then he got back up. I said, are you all right?
0:03:25 > 0:03:27Not much response.
0:03:27 > 0:03:31Then he come into the cabin, and then he started to rub his chest.
0:03:31 > 0:03:35And that's where he collapsed in the chair.
0:03:35 > 0:03:38And obviously we laid him down. Dean rung for the ambulance,
0:03:38 > 0:03:41and I started to proceed with CPR.
0:03:41 > 0:03:43Because he was really, really struggling for breathing.
0:03:43 > 0:03:46He was cold, and everything else. So I just started CPR straightaway.
0:03:46 > 0:03:50Just relax. We've got your colleagues here. It's the ambulance service.
0:03:50 > 0:03:52We're going to need to keep him as flat as we can, all right?
0:03:52 > 0:03:55So we're going to go straight out onto the ambulance.
0:03:55 > 0:03:58Eric is partially conscious, and his heart rate is very weak.
0:03:59 > 0:04:02All right, guys. Ready, steady, lift!
0:04:03 > 0:04:06Eric, just relax your head back.
0:04:08 > 0:04:13Sean has been trained in first aid by the St John Ambulance,
0:04:13 > 0:04:16and this is not the first time he has saved someone's life.
0:04:16 > 0:04:21The second time I had to use it was in a car accident when a woman
0:04:21 > 0:04:23got completely smashed by a tree,
0:04:23 > 0:04:25straight through the side of the car.
0:04:25 > 0:04:28Only the second time that I've had to use it, but it's come in handy.
0:04:28 > 0:04:32As long as he's all right, that's all we're bothered about. So.
0:04:32 > 0:04:33I'd do it for anyone.
0:04:35 > 0:04:38How's that? Is that better for your head?
0:04:38 > 0:04:41Cheers, boys, thanks very much. Appreciated.
0:04:41 > 0:04:46Helimed 98 is ready to leave, but Eric's not out of the woods yet.
0:04:46 > 0:04:48He appears confused.
0:04:48 > 0:04:51Victims of heart attacks can suffer brain damage
0:04:51 > 0:04:55- as a result of lack of oxygen. - Just relax, relax.
0:04:55 > 0:04:58The team wants to get him to the Northern General Hospital
0:04:58 > 0:05:04- in Sheffield as quickly as possible. - Eric! Eric, keep still.
0:05:04 > 0:05:07We don't want him kicking his foot about.
0:05:07 > 0:05:11I'm just go to try and slip him through. That's it. Eric.
0:05:11 > 0:05:16We are the ambulance service. Just keep still, please.
0:05:16 > 0:05:19We're trying to help you out. You had a heart attack.
0:05:19 > 0:05:22- Are you all right in the back? - Eric is very agitated.
0:05:22 > 0:05:25It's a common symptom of patients whose brains have been
0:05:25 > 0:05:28starved of oxygen, and it's not a good sign.
0:05:29 > 0:05:33At 1,000 feet, restraining him is all the paramedics can do.
0:05:37 > 0:05:41He's pulled his line out, so watch yourselves on the blood. Keep still.
0:05:41 > 0:05:44Keep still.
0:05:45 > 0:05:47All right, guys?
0:05:47 > 0:05:50He became very combative, trying to wiggle his legs out,
0:05:50 > 0:05:51his arms were punching.
0:05:51 > 0:05:54We literally had to lay on top of him just to hold him down
0:05:54 > 0:05:56and keep everything safe.
0:05:56 > 0:05:58Just get him up there and see what happens.
0:05:58 > 0:06:02A cardiac arrest can cause irreparable damage to the heart.
0:06:03 > 0:06:07In the next ten minutes, the doctors will X-ray Eric and begin surgery
0:06:07 > 0:06:11to open out the blocked blood vessels that caused his attack.
0:06:13 > 0:06:16His long-term outlook will take longer to emerge.
0:06:22 > 0:06:27When the sun shines, North Yorkshire is a perfect holiday hotspot.
0:06:27 > 0:06:30Shielded from the worst of the weather by the Pennines,
0:06:30 > 0:06:34parts of the county are actually as dry as North Africa.
0:06:34 > 0:06:38But locals will tell you you can also experience
0:06:38 > 0:06:42four seasons in one day here, and today is one of those days.
0:06:42 > 0:06:45- It doesn't help with this rain. - Not at all.
0:06:46 > 0:06:49Helimed 99 is fighting the weather to reach a badly injured biker
0:06:49 > 0:06:52high on the North York Moors.
0:06:53 > 0:06:57- I think we're getting hailed on. - It's not nice, is it?
0:06:57 > 0:07:00The crew knows high ground and low cloud
0:07:00 > 0:07:03are a deadly combination for pilots.
0:07:03 > 0:07:07Is it up on the hill? We just don't know really, do we?
0:07:07 > 0:07:12There's no-one on scene that can give us a grid reference.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15That's not great, is it? There is somebody there, is there?
0:07:15 > 0:07:18- Is that somebody? - Is that somebody at two o'clock?
0:07:18 > 0:07:21And are they gesticulating?
0:07:21 > 0:07:24Yes, they are. There we go. We've found it.
0:07:30 > 0:07:35- Hi, guys.- All right?- Yes, I am. How you? Peter, pleased to meet you.
0:07:37 > 0:07:40I see you are using the bikes as a bit of protection.
0:07:41 > 0:07:46That's exactly what we need. Tell me, what's been happening to you?
0:07:46 > 0:07:48I came down here and went into a ditch
0:07:48 > 0:07:52- and went over the handlebars, and the handlebar went into my groin.- OK.
0:07:53 > 0:07:57I think it might be a pelvis trapped or something like that.
0:07:57 > 0:08:03It might be bruising, but I'm a bit out of... A bit bruised.
0:08:03 > 0:08:06- A bit bruised and sore. - And then they took me to the bike,
0:08:06 > 0:08:09and I passed out for about ten seconds, apparently.
0:08:09 > 0:08:11Pete Hitchcock's up here from London.
0:08:11 > 0:08:15He had been out riding with his son when he lost control of his bike.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17It's pretty blowy.
0:08:17 > 0:08:20He just drifted to the side, you can see the puddle there.
0:08:20 > 0:08:22He's just gone round it a bit,
0:08:22 > 0:08:24gone onto the grass, the wind's blown him
0:08:24 > 0:08:26and he's gone into that ditch and over the handlebars there.
0:08:26 > 0:08:29When you stood up, could you put weight on that same leg?
0:08:29 > 0:08:31Not really, not on the right leg.
0:08:31 > 0:08:36The weather is getting worse, and Sammy has to adapt her treatment.
0:08:36 > 0:08:38Given the condition of the weather,
0:08:38 > 0:08:40I don't really want to strip you off.
0:08:40 > 0:08:43I just need to see if you have bleeding anywhere.
0:08:43 > 0:08:47- Have you felt anything running?- Pete pulled himself out of the ditch.
0:08:48 > 0:08:52- Actually in your groin area? - It wasn't like this earlier.
0:08:52 > 0:08:57It was lovely and sunny. Then he crashes, and the weather rolls in.
0:08:57 > 0:09:00Sammy's flying suit is meant to be waterproof,
0:09:00 > 0:09:03but nothing can withstand rain like this.
0:09:04 > 0:09:06Whoo. Right, then.
0:09:06 > 0:09:09And then what we'll do is we'll put you on a board
0:09:09 > 0:09:12and we'll carry you to the aircraft and have a proper look at you.
0:09:12 > 0:09:14But I don't want to be stripping you off where you are, all right?
0:09:14 > 0:09:16Whereabouts do you live, Pete?
0:09:16 > 0:09:19- London. Harrow.- Oh! Welcome to the beautiful Yorkshire.
0:09:19 > 0:09:23- I'm sure it's July next week. - Pardon?- I'm sure it's July next week.
0:09:25 > 0:09:29And all we're getting is a hailstone gun, is that right?
0:09:29 > 0:09:31It was sunny when I set off.
0:09:31 > 0:09:33Oh, bless you.
0:09:34 > 0:09:38There aren't enough people to carry Pete to the helicopter.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41But then, out of the gloom, help is on its way.
0:09:42 > 0:09:46We're going to lay him down onto this board. Ready, steady, roll.
0:09:48 > 0:09:50Ow! That hurt.
0:09:51 > 0:09:55Let us help you straighten that leg. Can you lay flat on your back?
0:09:55 > 0:09:59- Or have you got back protectors on? - No, pull me round here.
0:09:59 > 0:10:01Ready, steady...
0:10:02 > 0:10:05If you go to the side of the aircraft, to the left.
0:10:08 > 0:10:11That's got to be a bit better, bud. Out of the wind.
0:10:11 > 0:10:14Couldn't do anything out there, could we?
0:10:16 > 0:10:18It turns out Pete has a fractured pelvis.
0:10:20 > 0:10:22His is a minor break,
0:10:22 > 0:10:25and thanks to prompt treatment from the Helimed team,
0:10:25 > 0:10:29he'll be able to head back to his home in London ten days later.
0:10:32 > 0:10:35It was a beautiful day when I left the airport at Leeds Bradford,
0:10:35 > 0:10:38but by the time we arrived up on the track,
0:10:38 > 0:10:40it was Yorkshire at her finest.
0:10:40 > 0:10:44It was horizontal hailstones followed by lashings
0:10:44 > 0:10:48and lashings of rain. The patient was soaking wet and so was I.
0:10:48 > 0:10:51I'm pleased to report that despite a fractured pelvis,
0:10:51 > 0:10:52he's made a great recovery.
0:10:52 > 0:10:56I hope he finds it in his heart to come and visit Yorkshire again.
0:10:59 > 0:11:04The North York Moors National Park covers 550 square miles.
0:11:05 > 0:11:08Its rolling hills stretch from the Vale of York
0:11:08 > 0:11:10all the way to the coast.
0:11:10 > 0:11:14But the part of the park that keeps the Helimed team most busy
0:11:14 > 0:11:16is Dalby Forest.
0:11:16 > 0:11:218,000 acres of woodland concealing one of the UK's most popular
0:11:21 > 0:11:23mountain bike tracks.
0:11:26 > 0:11:28Today, another young rider has come off.
0:11:31 > 0:11:35We go there that frequently, there's already a mark on the map.
0:11:35 > 0:11:39What, Dalby Forest? Funny old thing, mate.
0:11:39 > 0:11:42Pilot Chris Attrill needs to find the clearing in the forest
0:11:42 > 0:11:44to bring Helimed 98 down.
0:11:44 > 0:11:47He's been here so many times before,
0:11:47 > 0:11:49Chris already knows the best place to land.
0:11:50 > 0:11:54- I'm assuming it is the hollow, isn't it?- That's what we were told.
0:11:56 > 0:11:59The accident was witnessed by several other riders.
0:11:59 > 0:12:04Good Samaritans, eh? Is he on his own, or with his parents or anything?
0:12:04 > 0:12:08Tom was attempting a tricky section of woodland track when he came off.
0:12:08 > 0:12:10It's feared he has a neck injury.
0:12:10 > 0:12:13You all right there, Tom? How are you doing down there?
0:12:15 > 0:12:17You're getting cold?
0:12:17 > 0:12:19We'll get you off the ground pretty quick, all right?
0:12:19 > 0:12:22Off-duty staff from York Hospital's A&E unit
0:12:22 > 0:12:24were enjoying the track themselves.
0:12:24 > 0:12:27They've been making sure Tom's injury is protected.
0:12:27 > 0:12:30- You've not hurt yourself anywhere else, have you?- No.
0:12:30 > 0:12:35Is it all right if I have a little feel? What were you doing?
0:12:35 > 0:12:38- I was on the track there and I fell off.- You fell off?
0:12:38 > 0:12:40Were you not paying attention?
0:12:40 > 0:12:43Tom's family weren't surprised by this accident.
0:12:43 > 0:12:46- He's always coming off his bike. - He's done it loads of times.
0:12:46 > 0:12:48I trusted him to do it on his own,
0:12:48 > 0:12:52- but unfortunately he's fell off this time.- Right, Tom.
0:12:52 > 0:12:54What I need you to do is just lie there.
0:12:54 > 0:12:57On my call. Everybody all ready?
0:12:57 > 0:12:58Ready, steady, move.
0:13:00 > 0:13:02Look at the mud there.
0:13:02 > 0:13:06With suspected injuries involving the neck, all patients must wear a
0:13:06 > 0:13:12surgical collar, and some, like Tom, will be strapped to a spinal board.
0:13:12 > 0:13:15He was complaining of a bit of tenderness of his C-spine, so I just
0:13:15 > 0:13:18made sure he didn't move his head at all and things like that.
0:13:18 > 0:13:21I thought it was probably best to call an ambulance.
0:13:21 > 0:13:25Making sure Tom is properly strapped in and perfectly still
0:13:25 > 0:13:29will ensure if there is any serious injury to the neck,
0:13:29 > 0:13:31it won't be made any worse.
0:13:31 > 0:13:32Ready, steady.
0:13:32 > 0:13:35The Helimed team's used to carrying injured mountain bikers
0:13:35 > 0:13:38out of these woods, but Tom's younger than most.
0:13:38 > 0:13:40They don't often come this size, do they?
0:13:41 > 0:13:44Helimed 98's going to fly him direct to the A&E unit
0:13:44 > 0:13:49at Scarborough Hospital where his neck and back will be X-rayed.
0:13:49 > 0:13:51He's come off that track there with his helmet on, and it doesn't
0:13:51 > 0:13:54sound like he's knocked himself out, but he's saying his neck hurts.
0:13:54 > 0:13:57So, a nice little flight to hospital for him,
0:13:57 > 0:14:00and then hopefully get on with the rest of his holiday.
0:14:00 > 0:14:03His dad Dave will make the short flight with Tom.
0:14:03 > 0:14:06Staff at Scarborough Hospital will be only too familiar
0:14:06 > 0:14:08with Tom's case.
0:14:08 > 0:14:11They've had to treat up to three riders a day with injuries
0:14:11 > 0:14:13suffered in the woods.
0:14:13 > 0:14:15How you doing?
0:14:15 > 0:14:18Like most of the casualties, Tom turns out only to have
0:14:18 > 0:14:22minor injuries, and is sent home the following day.
0:14:24 > 0:14:27But paramedics know if you're called down to the woods today,
0:14:27 > 0:14:31you shouldn't be surprised if you're called back tomorrow.
0:14:31 > 0:14:34Helimed 98. We're on to the crew at the moment.
0:14:34 > 0:14:37They've just arrived with the patient. They're asking
0:14:37 > 0:14:40have you identified the location of their vehicle yet. Over.
0:14:41 > 0:14:43No, that is a negative.
0:14:45 > 0:14:48Down in the trees is a horse rider
0:14:48 > 0:14:50who's come off after hitting a branch.
0:14:50 > 0:14:53There's the ambulance there. We've got it. Two o'clock.
0:14:53 > 0:14:56Where are they from there, then?
0:14:56 > 0:14:58They've just said about half a mile in some woods.
0:15:01 > 0:15:03You got woods all round, haven't you?
0:15:04 > 0:15:07Roger. Me and me mate will both come down there.
0:15:07 > 0:15:10We've got reports that someone's fallen off a horse, and we're just
0:15:10 > 0:15:14going to go down now and see if we can give them any assistance,
0:15:14 > 0:15:17because at the very least, it's going to be quite a long walk
0:15:17 > 0:15:22for them, so the more people that can help carry the patient, the better.
0:15:22 > 0:15:24I've never been in this wood before.
0:15:24 > 0:15:27We do some training with Mountain Rescue sometimes
0:15:27 > 0:15:30in the next one over, St Ives area.
0:15:30 > 0:15:34It's fairly similar. It's this kind of woodland, with lots of footpaths
0:15:34 > 0:15:36running through it, obviously.
0:15:36 > 0:15:41So, a fairly high amount of traffic for leisure activities.
0:15:41 > 0:15:45Horse riding, mountain biking, walking, that sort of thing.
0:15:45 > 0:15:48Undulating, this, for carrying someone.
0:15:48 > 0:15:49Hiya.
0:15:49 > 0:15:53The injured rider, Jane Houghton from Keighley,
0:15:53 > 0:15:56has been knocked off her horse,
0:15:56 > 0:16:00and land crews think she's injured her pelvis and her spine.
0:16:00 > 0:16:04Yeah, we just had a little canter up the hill,
0:16:04 > 0:16:08and we were laughing because we'd enjoyed it,
0:16:08 > 0:16:13and my horse decided to walk underneath the tree branch,
0:16:13 > 0:16:19and I was looking at my friend, and didn't see the tree branch,
0:16:19 > 0:16:21and it kind of knocked my head right back.
0:16:22 > 0:16:28I've just got a horse that has a tendency to go towards trees.
0:16:30 > 0:16:34Jane was wearing all the right protective gear, but she fell hard.
0:16:34 > 0:16:37There's no way she can walk out of here.
0:16:37 > 0:16:41Looking at the terrain, we could do with at least another couple
0:16:41 > 0:16:45of bodies so that we've got at least six of us carrying the patient.
0:16:45 > 0:16:48It's going to be quite difficult and tiring.
0:16:48 > 0:16:50We were just coming through the woods.
0:16:50 > 0:16:53We'd had a bit of a canter coming up the bottom there which was
0:16:53 > 0:16:56fine, and we'd just come back to walk, and we were walking up,
0:16:56 > 0:17:00but there are some quite dangerous overhanging branches here
0:17:00 > 0:17:03that could really do with being chopped off.
0:17:03 > 0:17:06And unfortunately, the horse avoided some of the divots, and ended up...
0:17:06 > 0:17:09The horse could get under the branch, but unfortunately
0:17:09 > 0:17:12the rider couldn't, and the rider was taken straight off.
0:17:12 > 0:17:15She's not in too much distress, over.
0:17:15 > 0:17:17So crew will be carrying, over.
0:17:18 > 0:17:20It's getting colder here in the woods.
0:17:20 > 0:17:22They're going to wrap their patient up
0:17:22 > 0:17:25as they wait for reinforcements to arrive.
0:17:25 > 0:17:29The thing is, you never fall off when you're doing the dangerous things.
0:17:29 > 0:17:32So when we were flying up the hill, you never fall off.
0:17:32 > 0:17:34It's just when you're stood still.
0:17:34 > 0:17:37The team's call for help has been answered
0:17:37 > 0:17:39by two volunteers from St John Ambulance.
0:17:39 > 0:17:41Right, one, two, three.
0:17:41 > 0:17:42Everybody all right?
0:17:42 > 0:17:45Carrying Jane out of the woods is going to be tricky
0:17:45 > 0:17:49and physically demanding, especially on this terrain.
0:17:49 > 0:17:52A bit awkward here, all right? Do you want to go on that side?
0:17:52 > 0:17:56Jane's on her way by road to Scarborough Hospital for scans
0:17:56 > 0:17:57and X-rays.
0:17:57 > 0:17:59It's feared she has a fractured pelvis,
0:17:59 > 0:18:02and that's a very serious injury.
0:18:03 > 0:18:06She'll be out of the saddle for some time.
0:18:12 > 0:18:16It's five weeks since demolition man Eric Wells was admitted to
0:18:16 > 0:18:20hospital after a heart attack that would have killed him
0:18:20 > 0:18:22had it not been for workmate Sean Hewitt,
0:18:22 > 0:18:25who gave him life-saving CPR.
0:18:25 > 0:18:28Despite needing five shocks from a defibrillator,
0:18:28 > 0:18:33Eric's heart is recovering, and he hopes he'll soon be allowed home.
0:18:33 > 0:18:36I don't remember anything on the day.
0:18:36 > 0:18:39It almost surprised me how it happened,
0:18:39 > 0:18:43and I don't know what time I had the heart attack or anything.
0:18:44 > 0:18:46It's just a blank.
0:18:46 > 0:18:48- Eric?- Eric?- Eric!
0:18:48 > 0:18:52They put me into a coma for about ten days.
0:18:53 > 0:18:57They tried bringing me round once, and me heart couldn't take it,
0:18:57 > 0:19:00so they put me under again.
0:19:02 > 0:19:05And I can't remember anything apart from the last four days
0:19:05 > 0:19:08when they brought me
0:19:08 > 0:19:11out of the coma to make sure I was fit to bring me up to here.
0:19:12 > 0:19:14We're just trying to help you out.
0:19:14 > 0:19:17It was soon after Eric came out of the coma that he was told
0:19:17 > 0:19:20he owes his life to a workmate he hardly knew.
0:19:22 > 0:19:24Obviously, I'm pleased he saved me life.
0:19:26 > 0:19:30And I'm still trying to put a face to Sean.
0:19:30 > 0:19:32If he hadn't have saved me life,
0:19:32 > 0:19:36I wouldn't have met me grandson for the first time last week.
0:19:37 > 0:19:40Because he was born while I was in the coma.
0:19:42 > 0:19:44So that's a chance in a million.
0:19:47 > 0:19:49At Helimed headquarters,
0:19:49 > 0:19:52there's no doubt that there'd be more people like Eric surviving
0:19:52 > 0:19:57their heart attacks if there were more people like Sean to save them.
0:19:57 > 0:20:01There's no question that the gentleman that performed CPR
0:20:01 > 0:20:03saved his life that day.
0:20:04 > 0:20:07Just learning the basic techniques of how to recognise
0:20:07 > 0:20:12somebody in cardiac arrest and how to start chest compressions,
0:20:12 > 0:20:15it's invaluable, and it's something that everybody should do.
0:20:15 > 0:20:20Without that gentleman that day, the patient would have died.
0:20:22 > 0:20:27It's now four months since the day Eric almost died.
0:20:27 > 0:20:30He's being looked after by family in Billingham on Teesside, and
0:20:30 > 0:20:36he's about to be reunited with the man who saved his life, Sean Hewitt.
0:20:38 > 0:20:41It's going to be interesting. I don't know how I'm going to react.
0:20:43 > 0:20:45It'll be...
0:20:45 > 0:20:47It's exciting to see him.
0:20:47 > 0:20:50And thank him for saving my life.
0:20:52 > 0:20:54Sean is driving up from South Yorkshire.
0:20:54 > 0:20:58He's been trained by his employers in giving CPR.
0:20:58 > 0:21:02He never expected to have to put it into practice so soon.
0:21:04 > 0:21:05The last time I saw him,
0:21:05 > 0:21:09we lifted him onto the trolley and I just looked at him,
0:21:09 > 0:21:13and I thought, Eric, I hope you make it, because I've done my best.
0:21:13 > 0:21:16And that's the last time I saw him,
0:21:16 > 0:21:19and then he got took into the helicopter and took to hospital.
0:21:19 > 0:21:23And that's the last I've saw of him or heard of him until today.
0:21:26 > 0:21:29- How are you doing?- Feeling better.
0:21:32 > 0:21:33Are you all right, mate?
0:21:33 > 0:21:35I appreciate what you did. HE SNIFFS
0:21:38 > 0:21:41We wouldn't have been doing this four months ago!
0:21:41 > 0:21:43I was going to give you a snog, but you had a big beard,
0:21:43 > 0:21:45and I thought, no.
0:21:47 > 0:21:51Eric has no recollection of what happened that day.
0:21:51 > 0:21:55I found you in Abel's office slumped in a chair at the back
0:21:55 > 0:21:57of the office.
0:21:57 > 0:22:02I lifted you out of that chair, I laid you on the floor,
0:22:02 > 0:22:06and I proceeded with CPR for at least 12 to 15 minutes.
0:22:06 > 0:22:08I kept shouting your name and everything,
0:22:08 > 0:22:10and there was no response.
0:22:10 > 0:22:17And I'm sorry if I broke a rib or two, I don't know. I didn't mean to.
0:22:17 > 0:22:21After about 15 minutes, three ambulances came.
0:22:21 > 0:22:25From what I heard, I died nine times.
0:22:28 > 0:22:31Thank you isn't enough. I don't know what I can do.
0:22:31 > 0:22:34I'd have done it for you, Eric. I'd have done it for anybody.
0:22:34 > 0:22:37- Thank you for saving me life. - You're welcome.
0:22:38 > 0:22:40I'd have done it for you or anyone.
0:22:42 > 0:22:44Are you all right?
0:22:44 > 0:22:49To hear you first-hand makes things clearer in my mind
0:22:49 > 0:22:51about what happened.
0:22:51 > 0:22:54And that helps me on the road to recovery even more.
0:22:59 > 0:23:03Yorkshire's coastline's been shaped by the waves over hundreds
0:23:03 > 0:23:09of millions of years, and life here still revolves around time and tide.
0:23:09 > 0:23:13There's no shortage of reminders about the force of the sea here.
0:23:13 > 0:23:16But every summer, thousands come to enjoy the quaint fishing
0:23:16 > 0:23:20villages and secluded beaches north of Whitby.
0:23:20 > 0:23:25Sadly, one day trip has ended in a nasty accident.
0:23:29 > 0:23:32Helimed 98, visual traffic lining up.
0:23:32 > 0:23:36I'm going to go direct to this location.
0:23:36 > 0:23:39Initial reports are that we've got an 11-year-old child who's
0:23:39 > 0:23:42fallen from the sea wall. A fall from any height can be significant.
0:23:42 > 0:23:46I suggest that a wall at a coastal resort could be quite high,
0:23:46 > 0:23:49so the chance of serious injury is quite high.
0:23:49 > 0:23:53Is there a problem with tides? Do we know any of that information? Over.
0:23:56 > 0:24:00Trying to speak to the crew now, but airway reception's very poor.
0:24:00 > 0:24:03Paramedics Paul Kilner and Dave Appleby are heading
0:24:03 > 0:24:09for Runswick Bay, a former fishing village, now full of holiday homes.
0:24:09 > 0:24:12The village is built into the cliffs, and the only place
0:24:12 > 0:24:17to land is the beach, but it looks like the tide is coming in fast.
0:24:17 > 0:24:20Why don't I put it on the beach? He's cleared the beach now.
0:24:20 > 0:24:24It may be easier if you just jump out and we ascertain where we are.
0:24:24 > 0:24:27Pilot Andy Lister's a former naval officer.
0:24:27 > 0:24:31He knows landing on the beach is a risky business.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33Soft sand, incoming waves
0:24:33 > 0:24:38and members of the public are all hazards he must keep an eye on.
0:24:38 > 0:24:41I'd like to stay running until we know exactly what we're doing.
0:24:41 > 0:24:44Andy will keep the engines running just in case.
0:24:44 > 0:24:47If Helimed 98 developed a technical fault here,
0:24:47 > 0:24:52£3 million worth of helicopter would be at the mercy of the waves.
0:24:52 > 0:24:55The chopper is only a few feet from the sea,
0:24:55 > 0:24:57and the water's getting closer.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00He's going to be under water in about 15 or 20 minutes.
0:25:01 > 0:25:04- The tide will be up to him. - That's why he's kept it running.
0:25:04 > 0:25:09Not knocked out. Complaining of pain in head and neck. Lacerations.
0:25:09 > 0:25:12- Central or side?- Central.
0:25:12 > 0:25:16- Has she got any altered neurology?- No.
0:25:16 > 0:25:18Are you overly concerned with it?
0:25:18 > 0:25:21We're concerned because she's 11 and she's in a lot of pain.
0:25:21 > 0:25:2511-year-old Olivia Muncaster was on holiday
0:25:25 > 0:25:28when she fell from the sea wall.
0:25:28 > 0:25:31Hello. How you doing? You all right?
0:25:31 > 0:25:34I don't know, you've got all these people staring at you,
0:25:34 > 0:25:36asking you all these questions.
0:25:36 > 0:25:39We are looking after you now. You'll be all right.
0:25:39 > 0:25:41Ground crews called in the Helimed team.
0:25:41 > 0:25:44The road out of the bay is steep with sharp bends,
0:25:44 > 0:25:47and then there's a 20-mile drive to the nearest A&E.
0:25:49 > 0:25:51It's going to get noisy, so I'll have a listen to her chest.
0:25:51 > 0:25:53I'll go back and have a word with Andy.
0:25:53 > 0:25:56Then I'll just stand at the aircraft.
0:25:56 > 0:25:59We think the tide will be coming in in the next 15, 20 minutes.
0:26:01 > 0:26:03Pilot Andy is anxious to be off.
0:26:03 > 0:26:05Thankfully, the sea is calm,
0:26:05 > 0:26:08but the tide's almost lapping around the skids.
0:26:08 > 0:26:10Can you get some of the guys to help move this equipment,
0:26:10 > 0:26:13because when he takes off, it will blow.
0:26:13 > 0:26:16Are you hurting anywhere while you're laying there? In your back?
0:26:18 > 0:26:20The back of my head.
0:26:20 > 0:26:24At last, Olivia's ready to be loaded into the chopper.
0:26:28 > 0:26:32- Let's just try and get this lass on. - I'll not go any further than that.
0:26:35 > 0:26:38Loading a patient with rotors running is something the team
0:26:38 > 0:26:43tries to avoid. It's noisy and can be frightening for younger patients.
0:26:45 > 0:26:49For pilot Andy, this is a moment of relief.
0:26:49 > 0:26:53Olivia's being flown to the James Cook Trauma Unit in Middlesbrough.
0:26:53 > 0:26:57- Just coming left a wee bit. - You're good this side.
0:26:57 > 0:27:00Olivia's mum, Helen, is coming with her.
0:27:00 > 0:27:05Nobody expected a holiday by the sea to end like this.
0:27:05 > 0:27:08Approaching for permission to land.
0:27:08 > 0:27:13Paramedic Paul knows there's every chance his patient has escaped with
0:27:13 > 0:27:18little more than minor injuries, but a broken neck is hard to diagnose.
0:27:18 > 0:27:21Only X-rays will reveal the truth.
0:27:22 > 0:27:26This is a day neither Olivia nor her mum will forget,
0:27:26 > 0:27:29- and neither will pilot Andy. - It was very problematic.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32Although Runswick Bay was very picturesque,
0:27:32 > 0:27:35selecting a suitable landing site was very difficult indeed.
0:27:35 > 0:27:37We are always concerned that
0:27:37 > 0:27:39if we land on the beach with the tide coming in,
0:27:39 > 0:27:41we may not start the engines again,
0:27:41 > 0:27:44so on this occasion we deemed it to be safer to continue running
0:27:44 > 0:27:47with the aircraft while we loaded the casualty,
0:27:47 > 0:27:49who was already packaged, before departing to hospital.
0:27:49 > 0:27:51But there is a happy ending.
0:27:51 > 0:27:56X-rays rule out a neck injury, and she's released after treatment.
0:28:03 > 0:28:06Driving the roads of North Yorkshire takes you back to the days
0:28:06 > 0:28:09when cars came with starting handles.
0:28:09 > 0:28:14The lanes are narrow, winding and great fun to drive,
0:28:14 > 0:28:17but if you're behind the wheel of a two-tonne ambulance,
0:28:17 > 0:28:20you see them very differently.
0:28:25 > 0:28:29The top of the Pennines is where Yorkshire meets Lancashire.
0:28:29 > 0:28:32It's a barren and desolate part of the country,
0:28:32 > 0:28:35where acres of moorland are punctuated
0:28:35 > 0:28:40only by the occasional reservoir and the even more occasional road.
0:28:40 > 0:28:42What are we going to, then, chaps?
0:28:42 > 0:28:45- Somebody potentially having a stroke.- Roger.
0:28:45 > 0:28:48Today, the Helimed team has been called to a patient needing
0:28:48 > 0:28:51help by one of the reservoirs.
0:28:51 > 0:28:54The trouble is, no-one knows which one.
0:28:54 > 0:28:58It would be very difficult for a land crew to get good access,
0:28:58 > 0:29:02so we're just going initially to see if that's actually the case
0:29:02 > 0:29:04and to see what we can do to help.
0:29:04 > 0:29:07OK, we've got an ambulance down there, Dave, nine o'clock.
0:29:07 > 0:29:10Yeah, I'm just going to talk to them.
0:29:10 > 0:29:12On the ground, paramedics and police officers
0:29:12 > 0:29:15are searching for the 77-year-old.
0:29:15 > 0:29:18In the air, they can't see anything either.
0:29:18 > 0:29:22You'd have thought there'd have been somebody with him, wouldn't you?
0:29:22 > 0:29:24- Have they found somebody or...? - No, they're walking.
0:29:24 > 0:29:28But it seems everyone's been looking in the wrong place.
0:29:28 > 0:29:31- We're here. - Right, so we're nowhere near.
0:29:31 > 0:29:33- It's over there.- Right.
0:29:33 > 0:29:37- Let's go. Where we going, then? - We're going to the west.- To the west.
0:29:37 > 0:29:39Yep.
0:29:41 > 0:29:43- OK. Round the corner.- Yep.
0:29:45 > 0:29:48Going down your side, Dave. On the corner.
0:29:51 > 0:29:53Right, chaps, I'm going to park it in.
0:29:55 > 0:29:56Hello there.
0:29:57 > 0:30:01- It started with a pain across the bottom of my back.- Yeah.
0:30:01 > 0:30:05Alan Ledbetter had nearly finished his long moorland walk
0:30:05 > 0:30:07when other hikers saw he needed help.
0:30:07 > 0:30:10Their quick thinking could have saved his life.
0:30:10 > 0:30:14He was really, really struggling to walk, just to keep on his feet.
0:30:14 > 0:30:18We asked if he was all right and he said, "Not really"...
0:30:18 > 0:30:19he just can't balance.
0:30:19 > 0:30:23I got this pain across the bottom of my back.
0:30:23 > 0:30:26- I didn't think anything of it. - What type of pain?
0:30:26 > 0:30:30- Just a pain, like...- Was it an achy pain, was it a sharp pain?
0:30:30 > 0:30:31Achy pain.
0:30:31 > 0:30:34He was leaning to one side, quite pronounced, so we thought,
0:30:34 > 0:30:37"That's not right." He fell over a couple of times.
0:30:37 > 0:30:40We walked with him and helped him and he got a little bit worse.
0:30:40 > 0:30:43How long had you been walking before that came on?
0:30:43 > 0:30:47- Oh, four or five hours. - And do you do a lot of walking?
0:30:47 > 0:30:50Yeah, I get out at least twice a week.
0:30:50 > 0:30:53Although Alan seems to think he's OK,
0:30:53 > 0:30:57the way he's leaning to the left is worrying paramedic Dave.
0:30:57 > 0:30:58Can you move that way a bit?
0:30:58 > 0:31:00Right, OK.
0:31:00 > 0:31:03Give us your hands. I want you to squeeze my fingers hard.
0:31:03 > 0:31:04Both of them.
0:31:04 > 0:31:07These tests on his face, arms and speech
0:31:07 > 0:31:10can be a good way of diagnosing a stroke.
0:31:10 > 0:31:15Right, it sounds to me like he's definitely had a TIA.
0:31:15 > 0:31:19- A what?- What we think you've had is what we call a TIA.
0:31:19 > 0:31:22It's a transient ischemic attack. It's a little bit...
0:31:22 > 0:31:29It's a very, very tiny stroke, but it only lasts for a number of minutes.
0:31:29 > 0:31:32I would highly recommend that we get you down
0:31:32 > 0:31:35to the local hospital for a check up.
0:31:35 > 0:31:37Well, listen, I know...
0:31:37 > 0:31:40but the thing with these is...
0:31:40 > 0:31:42sometimes it's a one-off
0:31:42 > 0:31:45and sometimes they can happen in another two or three hours.
0:31:45 > 0:31:48If you're up here on your own and something happens,
0:31:48 > 0:31:52you might not be as lucky as to have these good people here to see it.
0:31:52 > 0:31:54Although Alan would rather finish his walk
0:31:54 > 0:31:59and head to the doctors in the morning, Dave's having none of it.
0:31:59 > 0:32:00I'm here to help people.
0:32:00 > 0:32:05If we leave you now and something happens in half an hour,
0:32:05 > 0:32:10not only will I feel very, very bad about it, I'll get sacked.
0:32:10 > 0:32:12Oh, well, I don't want you to get the sack.
0:32:12 > 0:32:14I don't want to have either of those feelings.
0:32:14 > 0:32:17There's absolutely no road access to this one,
0:32:17 > 0:32:20so the ground ambulance and the police officers are heading off
0:32:20 > 0:32:22in the wrong direction. We've stopped them now
0:32:22 > 0:32:23and we've returned them to the vehicle
0:32:23 > 0:32:28and we're going to transfer this man down to the ground ambulance where
0:32:28 > 0:32:31he's going to be transferred into hospital for a bit of a check up.
0:32:36 > 0:32:40We've lifted with the patient. Transferring to the ground vehicle.
0:32:40 > 0:32:44It'll be approximately one minute and we'll be back on the ground.
0:32:44 > 0:32:48It's a short but, for Alan, a potentially critical flight.
0:32:49 > 0:32:52Tail's clear.
0:32:52 > 0:32:55- Yeah, I need to put my tail over the top here.- Roger.
0:32:55 > 0:32:57The wind's behind me. I can't do this, at the moment.
0:32:59 > 0:33:02Basically, I think he's had a TIA.
0:33:02 > 0:33:04Top and bottom. He says, "Can't you just...
0:33:04 > 0:33:08"If I promise to see my doctor..." I said, "No, doesn't work like that.
0:33:08 > 0:33:10"You could have another one quite easily
0:33:10 > 0:33:12"and then you're not going to be so lucky."
0:33:12 > 0:33:14And it's a good job he took Dave's advice.
0:33:14 > 0:33:19At hospital, it was confirmed he had had a TIA or a mini-stroke.
0:33:20 > 0:33:24Alan is now taking it easy back at home, very grateful for the
0:33:24 > 0:33:29fellow hillwalkers who spotted the signs and possibly saved his life.
0:33:33 > 0:33:37Making a living in the countryside is a tough business.
0:33:39 > 0:33:43Yorkshire's farmers must keep one eye on the market price
0:33:43 > 0:33:45and another on the weather,
0:33:45 > 0:33:50which is why harvest is invariably the busiest time for rural builders,
0:33:50 > 0:33:54putting up barns for the winter to come.
0:33:54 > 0:33:57And, today, one of them has fallen 30 feet.
0:33:57 > 0:33:59The crew on scene in there asked for us
0:33:59 > 0:34:01because they said he's got a head injury.
0:34:01 > 0:34:05With head injuries, patients can become aggressive
0:34:05 > 0:34:08and uncooperative so, as a paramedic,
0:34:08 > 0:34:11we can struggle sometimes to manage those patients
0:34:11 > 0:34:15so there is a doctor en route should we need to sedate the patient.
0:34:15 > 0:34:18- Clear on the left? - Clear left now, Patrice, mate, yeah.
0:34:18 > 0:34:20Clear on the right, thank you.
0:34:23 > 0:34:25This chap's Darrell, he's 27.
0:34:25 > 0:34:30He was working on the apex of the roof and he slid in the wet and
0:34:30 > 0:34:33he's gone straight down the other side of that hedge into the road.
0:34:33 > 0:34:36It seems like he's taken the brunt of the impact on his left shoulder
0:34:36 > 0:34:40- and he's very dull on that left apex as well.- Right.
0:34:40 > 0:34:42Darrell Wood is lucky to be alive.
0:34:42 > 0:34:46His fall was broken by a big hedge under the barn.
0:34:46 > 0:34:48Oh, you've done that clavicle good and proper.
0:34:49 > 0:34:51There was nowt we could do once he's up there.
0:34:51 > 0:34:54He slid down and that's it, you can't do nothing, he's gone.
0:34:54 > 0:34:59We shouted at him, no answer, so we jumped down to get him
0:34:59 > 0:35:01and he was like dazed, concussed and that.
0:35:01 > 0:35:05Got caught in the rain and then just one slip and he's gone.
0:35:05 > 0:35:08Flying doctor Jez Pennell, medical director of the Helimed team,
0:35:08 > 0:35:12has driven here expecting a patient with critical injuries.
0:35:12 > 0:35:14This is a pleasant surprise.
0:35:14 > 0:35:17- And your pelvis and your legs all feel OK?- Yeah.
0:35:17 > 0:35:20- I remember falling into a bush. - Into a bush?- Yeah.- Right.
0:35:20 > 0:35:24- So, the bush has broken your fall, has it?- You've had a lucky escape.
0:35:27 > 0:35:32There we go. Now, just lie, sit back. Sit back.
0:35:32 > 0:35:36Darrell may not feel like it, but he's been extremely fortunate.
0:35:36 > 0:35:39Just spin round, he's coming in feet-first.
0:35:39 > 0:35:43You need to bring him up to chest height or head height if you're me.
0:35:43 > 0:35:47Paramedics are trained to treat for the worst and hope for the best.
0:35:47 > 0:35:51That's why Darrell has been strapped to a spinal stretcher
0:35:51 > 0:35:55but he has none of the common symptoms of a neck or back injury.
0:35:55 > 0:35:59He's being flown to Leeds General Infirmary where his first
0:35:59 > 0:36:01appointment will be with the X-ray department.
0:36:01 > 0:36:04He's been very lucky in that there's a really high bush underneath
0:36:04 > 0:36:06the edge that he's gone over which has broken his fall
0:36:06 > 0:36:08although he's still landed on his head.
0:36:08 > 0:36:10I think if he'd gone the other way,
0:36:10 > 0:36:12it would have been a completely different story.
0:36:12 > 0:36:16And doctors confirm luck has indeed been on Darrell's side.
0:36:16 > 0:36:19His broken collarbone and shoulder are painful
0:36:19 > 0:36:24but for a man who's fallen 30 feet, he's got off very lightly.
0:36:27 > 0:36:28On a summer's day,
0:36:28 > 0:36:32Yorkshire's countryside is full of visitors seeking peace,
0:36:32 > 0:36:36quiet and nature but for some, the lanes of the moors
0:36:36 > 0:36:39and dales are an attraction in themselves.
0:36:39 > 0:36:41This is biking country.
0:36:44 > 0:36:48We're off to a motorcyclist who's had a collision with a car.
0:36:48 > 0:36:53- It's saying three miles to go, mate, so it's got to be fairly close.- Yep.
0:36:54 > 0:36:59Visual. Visual, 12:00, dark green field, two miles.
0:36:59 > 0:37:01Even before they've landed,
0:37:01 > 0:37:05paramedic Andy can get a good idea of just how serious this crash is.
0:37:07 > 0:37:10The 25-year-old rider has come off his bike
0:37:10 > 0:37:13and flown right over a garden wall.
0:37:13 > 0:37:18This is James, 25-years-old. He's come from there and landed here.
0:37:18 > 0:37:20- And he was coming this way by the looks of it.- Yeah.
0:37:20 > 0:37:26He's got a fractured femur, both knees look to be dislocated,
0:37:26 > 0:37:31- broken left arm, complaining of chest pain.- Fractured left arm.
0:37:31 > 0:37:35He's complaining of back pain as well. This is exactly how he landed.
0:37:35 > 0:37:37He hasn't been moved.
0:37:37 > 0:37:40So, at present, I haven't got a collar on him yet.
0:37:40 > 0:37:41OK, no worries, mate.
0:37:41 > 0:37:44We're going to get you sorted, OK?
0:37:44 > 0:37:45How are you feeling at the moment?
0:37:45 > 0:37:49- Pain, all over.- Pain all over?
0:37:49 > 0:37:53- How bad is it now since you've had morphine?- It's getting worse.
0:37:53 > 0:37:55It's getting worse, is it?
0:37:55 > 0:37:58James has just become a statistic.
0:37:58 > 0:38:01It's been a grim summer on Yorkshire's roads with
0:38:01 > 0:38:05warm weather being blamed for a doubling in deaths among bikers.
0:38:05 > 0:38:09In North Yorkshire alone, ten riders have died this year
0:38:09 > 0:38:11and they weren't boy racers.
0:38:11 > 0:38:15The average casualty is a family man in his 40s.
0:38:15 > 0:38:18It was all in a split-second, I thought, "Where's the motorbike?"
0:38:18 > 0:38:20And I thought, "Well, he must have gone round."
0:38:20 > 0:38:24Then, all of a sudden, I heard the bang and he came flying over the top.
0:38:24 > 0:38:27James' injuries have left him in severe pain.
0:38:27 > 0:38:30He's got a number of things going on that maybe
0:38:30 > 0:38:32we'll have to go down ket route.
0:38:32 > 0:38:36Andy's going to use his strongest painkiller.
0:38:36 > 0:38:38It's probably the only way they'll be able to
0:38:38 > 0:38:40straighten his shattered legs.
0:38:40 > 0:38:44- I think that's a definite dislocation on there.- Yeah, OK.
0:38:44 > 0:38:47- So we haven't straightened that properly just yet.- No.
0:38:47 > 0:38:49And that's an internal femur.
0:38:49 > 0:38:53We're going to give you some ketamine if that would be OK? And hopefully...
0:38:53 > 0:38:55It's a lot stronger than the stuff I've given you.
0:38:55 > 0:38:57..that'll get rid of that pain.
0:38:57 > 0:38:59Just titrate it to his response, mate,
0:38:59 > 0:39:02and if it wears off after 20 minutes, we can give him some more.
0:39:02 > 0:39:06This is an area where everyone knows everyone else.
0:39:06 > 0:39:10- Already, James' mum and auntie are with him.- All right, sweetheart?
0:39:10 > 0:39:13He came on the phone and he went, "Mum, I'm really hurt."
0:39:13 > 0:39:15I said, "Why? What's happened?"
0:39:15 > 0:39:18He said, "Somebody's just hit me and knocked me off the bike."
0:39:18 > 0:39:20I think the work they're doing is fantastic,
0:39:20 > 0:39:22I just wish it wasn't my son that's lying there.
0:39:22 > 0:39:25- JAMES GROANS IN PAIN - It's all right, darling.
0:39:26 > 0:39:30James flew more than 30 feet before landing in the garden.
0:39:30 > 0:39:35Despite very extensive injuries to his body, his head is unmarked.
0:39:35 > 0:39:37His helmet did its job.
0:39:37 > 0:39:40He's had quite a significant impact into this car which has
0:39:40 > 0:39:43turned right. He's been ejected and landed in this place.
0:39:43 > 0:39:45He's got multiple injuries at this point.
0:39:45 > 0:39:48He hasn't got a head injury which is also good for us.
0:39:48 > 0:39:51He's got some limb injuries which have obviously caused him
0:39:51 > 0:39:54quite significant pain and we've had difficulty mobilising him
0:39:54 > 0:39:55from that point.
0:39:58 > 0:40:01They're straightening his leg with a traction splint
0:40:01 > 0:40:04but paramedics often find themselves caring for the other
0:40:04 > 0:40:09victims of accidents - the parents and partners of patients.
0:40:09 > 0:40:12We're going to pop him off to hospital in the fastest way to
0:40:12 > 0:40:14get there and we'll take him into a specialist centre
0:40:14 > 0:40:18which will be able to treat him for his injuries, do you understand?
0:40:18 > 0:40:19We'll look after him.
0:40:21 > 0:40:26Paramedic Andy knows his patient's injuries are very serious.
0:40:26 > 0:40:29He needs the kind of diagnostic tools only the trauma centre
0:40:29 > 0:40:33at Leeds General Infirmary can provide.
0:40:33 > 0:40:36Helimed 99 can provide the speed.
0:40:37 > 0:40:41Yeah, we're clear there. Can I pass him onto you?
0:40:41 > 0:40:42- Wait a minute.- I've got him here.
0:40:44 > 0:40:48The LGI's doctors and surgeons are about to take over.
0:40:48 > 0:40:50- Has it come back, that pain? - Yeah.- Has it?
0:40:50 > 0:40:53And Andy's got quite a list for them.
0:40:53 > 0:40:55This is James, 25-year-old.
0:40:55 > 0:40:58He was riding his motorcycle at approximately 50 mph.
0:40:58 > 0:41:03He's got pain across his chest, pain on his back, pelvis pain,
0:41:03 > 0:41:07a fractured left femur, a fractured left lower arm,
0:41:07 > 0:41:10a right distal fractured femur and that was bleeding.
0:41:10 > 0:41:12With so many injuries,
0:41:12 > 0:41:16James is already very fortunate to have survived so far
0:41:16 > 0:41:21but with major internal trauma, the next few hours will be critical.
0:41:23 > 0:41:28Doctors find James has a staggering 43 broken bones.
0:41:28 > 0:41:32He spends the whole of the next day in theatre as surgeons
0:41:32 > 0:41:36reconstruct his pelvis and limbs with titanium rods.
0:41:36 > 0:41:41He spends five weeks in hospital and two months after the accident,
0:41:41 > 0:41:45he's still using a wheelchair and unable to walk.
0:41:45 > 0:41:47I shattered my leg roughly about there.
0:41:47 > 0:41:53I've got the spike, whatever you call it, going up there.
0:41:53 > 0:41:55My kneecap is split in half, it's actually got wires on it,
0:41:55 > 0:41:57figure of eight.
0:41:57 > 0:42:00My pelvis is cracked into three places.
0:42:02 > 0:42:04Two bones are broken in my arm,
0:42:04 > 0:42:09I've got a broken wrist which is now repaired.
0:42:09 > 0:42:13Nine fractures to my ribs, my sternum's cracked across there
0:42:13 > 0:42:15and two fractures to my back.
0:42:15 > 0:42:20After so long in hospital, James is just pleased to be home.
0:42:20 > 0:42:25He has many more months of physio ahead but his prognosis is good.
0:42:25 > 0:42:28I've had quite a good recovery straightaway.
0:42:28 > 0:42:31I was pretty lucky, very lucky, for my family's sake.
0:42:32 > 0:42:34I'm not keen to get on a bike again.
0:42:35 > 0:42:38And I'm pleased to say all of today's patients
0:42:38 > 0:42:40are recovering well.