A MAN has been seriously injured after falling approximately 15m down a riverbank. The incident happened in the boulder field at the bottom of New Wath Scar, near Goathland, at around 1.35pm yesterday. The gentleman sustained a head injury and was unconscious in the stream. Yorkshire Ambulance Service, Yorkshire Hazardous Area Response Team (HART), Yorkshire Air Ambulance, North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, North Yorkshire Police and Scarborough and Ryedale Mountain Rescue (SRMRT) were all involved in the rescue. He was airlifted to James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough. A spokesperson from SRMRT said: “After initial treatment on the stream bank by Yorkshire Ambulance Service and the Fire and Rescue Service, the gentleman was loaded onto one of our Bell Stetchers, evacuated from the gorge and carried a distance upstream by ourselves and officers from North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service to the waiting Yorkshire Air Ambulance.
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Police dispersed crowd as man treated for serious leg injury in Roseworth
A man was taken to hospital after an incident
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Police officers were called by paramedics to disperse a crowd as a man was treated for a serious leg injury.
Road ambulance paramedics also attended.
It has since emerged that the man was treated after sustaining a serious injury to his leg.