Newsar deputy leader Richard Prideaux is treated by team member John Heppenstal
A rescue team member had to call on his colleagues’ help after he was temporarily left unconscious in a mountain biking accident.
Richard Prideaux, deputy team leader with the North East Wales Search and Rescue Team, was left with a broken shoulder after he hit a tree in Clocaenog Forest in Conwy.
The accident, which happened about 7pm on Sunday, left the experienced mountaineer and mountain biker nursing a bruised ego as well as his injured shoulder.
His Newsar team colleagues came to his aid after his partner rang them following phone call from him when he came round.
Richard Prideaux Tweeted after his accident
The North Wales Police helicopter located him after he set off a flare he was carrying and his team colleagues treated him at the scene. He was released after being taken to hospital.
His team leader Iain Ashcroft told the BBC he had been ‘a good casualty’.
Gerald Davison
05 September 2011Poor old Richard. He will get the mick taken when he's a bit better. He was pretty poorly when we first got to him though. Gave us a bit of a fright. We treated at the scene with pain relief and collared him to be on the safe side due to the mechanism of injury. Good job he came around to be able to call us. Those are big woods and it would have taken a while to search for him.
Just goes to show it can happen to anyone, even someone very experienced.
But that's what we are there for - from the experienced, the novice, the unlucky or any other person that needs help in the countryside.
Get well soon Richard!