Stanage, Derbyshire: Emergency services called after paraglider crashes in Peak District near Sheffield
Emergency services were called out to Peak District near Sheffield after a paraglider crashed at a remote beauty spot.
An emergency call was sent to Derbyshire Police, with a team then dispatched to the scene from Edale Mountain rescue.
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Hide AdThe included flyer was given pain relief from the maintain rescue team, before they started the task of taking him to an ambulance
Edale Mountain Rescue said in a statement: "We were called by Derbyshire Police to attend to reports of a crashed paraglider towards Cowper Stone end of Stanage.
"An informant had witnessed the pilot take a hard landing; suffering lower leg injuries.
"The first team members quickly located the casualty who wasn’t too far from the road and provided pain relief before packaging them on a MR stretcher and bringing them down to a waiting East Midlands ambulance."
They said the crash had happened on Saturday February 26, at 4.30pm
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