Rescue team called after teenage girl breaks her leg while sledging down Huddersfield hillside

Rescue teams were called out after the girl broke her leg while tobogganing down a snow-covered hill in Shelley, near Huddersfield, on Saturday afternoon.

With Yorkshire Air Ambulance and coastguard helicopters deployed elsewhere, a nearby mountain rescue team was sent to aid the casualty.

Holme Valley Mountain Rescue Team said the girl broke her femur in the accident, which happened at around 3pm.

Paramedics from Yorkshire Ambulance Service treated her with painkillers while the volunteers prepared a bell stretcher to pull her to the top of the hill, where an ambulance was waiting to take her to hospital.

Writing on their Facebook page, the rescue team said: "We used the Bell stretcher to sledge the casualty up an icy slope to a waiting ambulance."

"The team decontaminated kit and uniform, and debriefed on the roadside whilst the casualty and her parents went to hospital."

Mountain rescue teams are experiencing some of their busiest periods ever with more people venturing outdoors due to the coronavirus lockdown.

Holme Valley Mountain Rescue Team, which operates across southern parts of Kirklees and moorland surrounding Holmfirth, said on Sunday it had attended six callouts in the first nine days of 2021.

Woodhead Mountain Rescue, based in Penistone, said 2020 had been its "busiest year yet" with a notable increase in rescues of mountain bikers and vulnerable missing people in Yorkshire's isolated rural areas.

Donations can be made to Holme Valley Mountain Rescue Team via its Facebook page here.

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