Biker thanks to air ambulance
A Houghton biker has repaid the rescuers who plucked him to safety from a remote forest.
Paul Parker, 42, raised cash to thank the Great North Air Ambulance Service (GNAAS), which came to his aid in January when he was seriously hurt while out riding in Slaley Forest, in Northumberland.
The accident left him unable to move as he had sustained a fractured pelvis. North East Ambulance Service paramedics called for help from the GNAAS team, who flew Paul to Newcastle’s Royal Victoria Infirmary within 19 minutes. He spent 11 days in hospital.
Paul visited the charity’s airbase in Langwathby, Cumbria, along with wife Julie and daughter Aimee to hand over £930 in gratitude and personally thank GNAAS doctor Jo Paterson, who was at the scene of the crash.