Hi-tech help to train emergency service crews in rescue techniques

STATE-of-the-art facilities for emergency crews to train to pull casualties from car wrecks were opened yesterday by the High Sheriff of Lincolnshire, Lady Sarah McCorquodale.
By The Newsroom
Published 4th Feb 2010, 13:27 BST
Updated 4th Feb 2010, 13:28 BST

The sister of Princess Diana, who died in a car crash in 1997, officiated at the new Road Traffic Collision (RTC) Extrication Centre at BDV Recovery Group on the Flixborough Industrial Estate, near Scunthorpe.

Owner Ross Ruscastle, whose sister Julie Dominey died in a crash in 2005, said: "I know what it is like for families to lose loved ones. I think business has a corporate responsibility to put something back into the community.

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"If it saves one life in 2010, it's a step in the right direction."

The centre will also be used to show young drivers found guilty of motoring offences the horrific consequences of a smash.

Group manager Nick Granger from Humberside Fire and Rescue Service said the centre would allow paramedics, ambulance and Highways Agency officers to train together rather than in isolation. He said it was a national first and already attracting attention from other fire and rescue organisations.

He paid tribute to the Mr Ruscastle's generosity, adding: "It's all at no cost whatsoever to the taxpayer. We are operating on his site, utilising his premises and Ross is not charging us a bean."

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