Thursday, 20 June 2013

"200 stone driver is rescued by 320 emergency workers in £200,000 operation"

From The Daily Mail:

An obese driver was trapped in his vehicle for more than a day as emergency services staff struggled to transfer him to a specialist ambulance for overweight patients.

The middle-aged man, thought to be from West Sussex and parts of Kent, was injured when his Humvee crashed into the back of several buses on the A29 road in Adversane, near Billingshurst.

In a rescue operation involving 320 emergency services staff the man was cut from his vehicle and moved into a bariatric ambulance – designed to cope with patients weighing more than a ton.

It took 180 firefighters, eighty police officers and sixty paramedics to haul him from the wreckage and the cost of the operation is thought to have been around £200,000...

Martin McKilligin, of the Falmouth Sealife Centre said: "Once he has recovered from his injuries, the man will be released back into the English Channel where he will delight whale watchers for years to come."

2 comments:

Lysistrata said...

"The middle-aged man, thought to be from West Sussex and parts of Kent..."

Subtle, and priceless. :)

Mark Wadsworth said...

L, thanks. With the benefit of hindsight, I'm not sure if West Sussex actually borders Kent, but hey.