By Callum Ludwig
Local SES and CFA crews assisted Ambulance Victoria at the scene of a motorbike accident in Yarra Glen on Sunday 26 march,
The motorcyclist had gone over a railing and down an embankment, requiring assistance to be safely brought back to the road to be attended to by paramedics and transported to hospital.
An Ambulance Victoria spokesperson said paramedics were called to the scene at about 4.10pm.
“One woman believed to be in her 50s was taken to the Alfred Hospital with a lower-body injury in a stable condition.,” they said.
The incident occurred on a bend on Eltham-Yarra Glen Road, not far out of the Yarra Glen township.
Lilydale and Healesville’s SES units attended alongside Coldstream and Yarra Glen CFA and Lilydale SES Unit Controller Shaun Caulfield said their crews arrived within 10 minutes after being notified at about 4.20pm.
“The key is bringing multiple extra sets of hands and a coordinated approach for these situations, it’s one of the things that we train extensively for. In this particular setting, we didn’t need to use any of our mule or roping systems,” he said.”
“We regularly work with Ambulance Victoria on patient and casualty handling so that we can make sure that when we do have to move patients around, it’s done in a safe manner. We do somewhere between 20 and 30 jobs a year where we assist AV with managing and extricating patients in difficult and tricky locations.”
