Inshore lifeboat launches to multiagency rescue to a fallen horse rider

The volunteer lifeboat crew made good progress around Old Harry and located the casualty at the north end of Studland beach. Paramedics, Coastguards and National Trust Rangers were also at the scene.

Evacuation plans for the fallen rider were being made and one option was to transport the casualty by boat to the waiting ambulance at the Knoll Beach car park. As it was possible to get a vehicle to the scene that could carry a stretcher is was decided to extract the casualty over the beach to a waiting ambulance. After the fallen rider was safely transferred to the vehicle the lifeboat crew were released from the scene and returned to Swanage, where the almost brand new D-class 'Roy Norgrove' was washed down and re-fuelled.

ILB Crew: (Helm) Fergus Holley, Becky Mack, Darren Tomes, Alan Parmenter

Shore Crew: (Winchman) Robert Aggas, Ben Bamber, Jamie Trumper, Martha Tavinor

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