Man suffered back injury and was carried 650 metres by mountain rescue

Shortly before midday a competitor came off his bike suffering a back injury and, following an initial assessment by one of the team’s ‘casualty carers’ positioned on that section, other team members were called to assist taking with them a range of equipment.

Pain relief was administered by one of their ‘extended skills casualty carers’ and the casualty was then secured within a vacuum mattress on a mountain rescue stretcher.

He was carried downhill for a few hundred metres and then approximately a further 650-metres across fields to a waiting Yorkshire Ambulance Service ambulance that had been requested by the team.

The injured man had to be carried 650 metres. Picture: Cleveland Mountain Rescue Team (Image: Cleveland Mountain Rescue Team)

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He was then transferred to the ambulance and taken to hospital for further assessment and treatment, the team wished him well for his recovery.

The mountain rescue volunteers also paid special tribute to seven riders and two Boltby Bash event staff who all provided significant help to the team by carrying equipment, helping to identify the best extraction route and particularly for assisting to carry the rescue stretcher (and for paying close attention to all advice and instructions given).

A team member said: “those competitors and event staff were a credit to the positive ‘can do’ spirit for which the annual Boltby Bash is known.” 

The injured man was then taken to hospital by the Yorkshire Ambulance Service. Picture: Cleveland Mountain Rescue Team (Image: Cleveland Mountain Rescue Team)