20 August 2012

Rider down at Stromlo

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ACT Ambulance Service and ACT Fire & Rescue on scene at Mt Stromlo.

ACT Ambulance Service intensive care paramedics are currently treating a male patient for a fractured leg who is approximately 400metres from a marked trail.

Update to follow.

1:21pm Monday 20 August 2012

ACT Ambulance Service intensive care paramedics reached the male mountain bike rider on the Skyline Mountain Bike trail.

ACT Fire & Rescue will use two specialist off-road four-wheel-drive vehicles to access the area in assisting intensive care paramedics to move the patient from Mt Stromlo to The Canberra Hospital.

Time of Emergency Triple Zero (000) call 12.00pm.

1:53pm Monday 20 August 2012

Crews are conveying the patient by foot along a 400metre track to an awaiting ambulance to be transported to The Canberra Hospital.

2:14pm Monday 20 August 2012

Crews are about to depart the scene.

ACT Ambulance Service intensive care paramedics will shortly transport the 35-year-old male patient to The Canberra Hospital in a stable condition.

A fellow rider raised the alarm by calling Emergency Triple Zero (000).

2:42pm Monday 20 August 2012

[Courtesy ESA]

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His leg is 400m from the marked trail, but where is the rest of his body?

Sorry, couldn’t resist the usual “Is that even English” comment…

G-Fresh said :

not a job for a ‘copter?

Much cheaper to use a 4wd I suppose.

ACT Ambulance Service intensive care paramedics are currently treating a male patient for a fractured leg who is approximately 400metres from a marked trail.

I doubt anywhere in the entire mountain is 400m from a marked trail. Do you suppose they mean 400m from a trail suitable for a four wheel vehicle?

not a job for a ‘copter?

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