On Sunday 11th May 2025, the rescue Team were requested by the North West Ambulance Service and Lancashire Constabulary to attend to a 59-year-old male who had fallen from his mountain bike into a ravine causing potential spinal and knee injuries.
Once Team members were on scene, we gained access and made a medical assessment that there were potential major trauma injuries.
The casualty was extricated from the ravine by the rescue Team and was then stretchered a short distance in our mountain rescue vacuum mattress to a nearby land ambulance. Unfortunately an air ambulance wasn’t available at this time due to other ongoing incidents, but the casualty was then taken to a nearby hospital for further assessment and treatment.
We wish the mountain biker a speedy recovery and we hope he is back out and about soon.
17 volunteers of Bowland Pennine Mountain Rescue were involved in this rescue which took 4 hours to complete.
