Air ambulance called to girl who fell from horse

An air ambulance was called out to a teenage rider after she fell from her horse near Sleaford.
The Mid Anglia General Practitioner Accident Service (Magpas) helicopter. EMN-161101-115403001The Mid Anglia General Practitioner Accident Service (Magpas) helicopter. EMN-161101-115403001
The Mid Anglia General Practitioner Accident Service (Magpas) helicopter. EMN-161101-115403001

The Mid Anglia General Practitioner Accident Service (Magpas) helicopter was scrambled from Cambridgeshire to the incident yesterday (Sunday), initially reported to the ambulance service at 12.17pm after a girl in her teens suffered a fall from a horse in Swaton.

The Magpas team of a doctor and paramedic assessed the patient who had sustained injuries to her upper body.

A Magpas charity spokesman continued: “The girl was then taken to the Pilgrim Hospital in Boston, in a stable condition, by an East Midlands Ambulance Service paramedic crew.