Scotland & NI 181/01
17 August 2001
BOY SUSTAINS INJURIES AFTER MOTORBIKE FALL
Clyde Coastguard received a call from the Ayr Ambulance
Control at just before 2.00 p.m. on 16 August 2001 requesting
assistance to an 11 year old boy who had fallen off his motorcycle
at South Beach near Troon.
Ambulance Control were concerned at the time that the accident had
occurred quite near the waterline on an incoming tide.
Coastguard immediately requested the launch of the Troon all
weather lifeboat and sent the Ayr Coastguard Rescue Team to the
scene.
The Team and lifeboat arrived at the same time and met with the
Strathclyde Police who was already there. The boy was then
stabilised by the RNLI medical team. Paramedics from the Ambulance
Service arrived shortly after.
The Coastguard had by this time scrambled a helicopter from the
Royal Naval Air Station at Prestwick and Rescue Helicopter R177
uplifted the boy after he was stabilised to Crosshouse Hospital,
Kilmarnock where he was taken to the A&E department.
Peter Stewart, Watch Manager at Clyde Coastguard said: "We
understand the lad is in a serious condition in hospital.
Fortunately the weather has not been too bad today with dry, cloudy
conditions and not much wind. This has been a very good example of
cross emergency service working which has enabled the boy to be
taken to hospital in very quick time, and we all wish him a speedy
recovery."
