Rescue 999: Seconds to Save a Life

The search in on for a hiker stranded on the peaks of Ben Oss, and a yacht is in serious peril on the Solent.

The urgent rescues of a man hit by cardiac arrest while shopping, a fallen climber with a traumatic leg fracture, and a son's Father's Day gift of jet skiing goes wrong.

This time, the Cambridgeshire Magpas air ambulance team are called to the scene of a traffic accident in Essex. A motorcyclist has collided with a car and the team need to urgently determine whether he has internal life-threatening injuries and needs airlifting to hospital.

Cambridgeshire air ambulance are called to a serious traffic collision near Wellingborough where a motorcyclist has been thrown from his motorbike with severe injuries. The team work fast to discover the extent of any potentially life-threatening injuries. The casualty is suffering from extensive pain; the challenge for the team is to airlift him safely to the nearest trauma centre for urgent medical care.

East Anglian Air Ambulance rush to the scene of a serious road traffic collision with a car ploughed into a tree. The casualty needs extraction from the crushed vehicle and urgent attention to potential life-threatening injuries. With no witnesses to the accident, the team piece together the possible cause of events - a call to the shocked husband reveals the family are waiting at home to celebrate her 50th birthday.