Emergency services descended on the scene of serious fall, after carnage on the bank holiday weekend saw the air ambulance called out 20 times.
On Saturday (May 25) a person falling in central Hartlepool saw crews from the North East Ambulance Service, and a doctor and paramedic from the Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS) arrived on the scene in less than 20 minutes.
A spokesperson for the GNAAS said: "On Saturday our critical care team was activated at 5.45pm to reports of a fall in Hartlepool. We had a doctor and paramedic respond on a rapid response vehicle and they arrived on scene at 6.04pm.
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"They worked alongside the North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) to assess and treat a patient, and the patient was taken to hospital by a NEAS road crew, accompanied by our team."
The Great North Air Ambulance Service’s (GNAAS) critical care teams in the North East and Cumbria responded to 20 incidents over the Bank Holiday weekend from Saturday 25 May to Monday 27 May.
They were activated to 14 incidents in the North East, four incidents in Cumbria, one incident in North Yorkshire, and one incident in Northumberland.
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