Car wreck man helped by SCAA crew
Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance (SCAA) paramedics assisted colleagues from Scottish Fire and Rescue, Police Scotland and the Scottish Ambulance Service to free an injured man trapped in the wreckage of an overturned car following a road traffic collision.
SCAA was called to the emergency near Loch Tay last Friday where they landed in the grounds of a nearby house to reach the injured as quickly as possible.
The trapped casualty was freed and airlifted by SCAA to Ninewells Hospital at Dundee.
The past week has also seen the country’s only charity-funded air ambulance fly to Arran to airlift a woman who required urgent hospital attention on the mainland.
The patient was taken from the island to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
SCAA is frequently called on to airlift seriously ill or injured patients from Scotland’s many islands who require urgent or emergency hospital treatment on the mainland. The helicopter flight is both substantially quicker and more comfortable than a lengthy transfer by road ambulance.
SCAA also flew to the Tummel Bridge area to reach a man who had collapsed.
The paramedics helped at the scene.
*** A young Perthshire couple injured in a recent road traffic collision attended by SCAA visited the charity’s Perth Airport base this week to thank those involved and donate £100 to help fund the air ambulance.
Among other donations received in the past week was one from residents living in and around St Fillans who voted for SCAA to receive a £500 donation from the St Fillans Community Trust.
And a Scone lady very kindly waived birthday presents from friends and family and asked for donations to SCAA instead, raising £200.
Locally placed SCAA collecting cans spilling out their much appreciated donations this week include those from:
Blairgowrie Post Office £24.97; the Green Welly Stop, Tyndrum £96.40 and Newtyle Post Office £46.35.
Those visiting or travelling through Edinburgh Airport on Monday, February 12, will see SCAA volunteers holding the charity’s first bucket collection courtesy of their new 2018 support partners.
Edinburgh Airport has selected SCAA to benefit from a raft of fundraising and promotional activities throughout the year, including bucket collections.
Volunteers will be on site from 5am to 9pm.
SCAA lead paramedic John Pritchard and local ambulance technician Amanda Alexander held the first of two first aid session for motorcyclists at the base this week.
Around 22 local bikers have signed up to learn what could prove to be life-saving skills in a series of staged injury scenarios.
The second session will take place on February 26.
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