Milk Wagon Crash Longsight Rd Balderstone 1980's Red Watch
From: ArticlesA photograph showing red watch dealing with a crashed milk tanker and a car firemen in picture are Jim Earnshaw and I think Nigel Yates, I remember this particular incident very well it was a very complicated rescue the driver of the cars foot was entrapped by a triangular bulkhead reinforcing bracket where the steering column came through the bulkhead . The force of the impact had wrapped the bracket around his toes. We had tried numerous ways of releasing him Dashboard Roll, Cutting the back of his shoe to slide his foot out, Pulling the steering column and dashboard with no success because every time we moved anything we where putting pressure on his injured foot. The eventual way we got him out was to lift the car up on Airbags and cut out the footwell of the car from the under side and drop out his foot out, I recall this being somewhat unpleasant because during the collision he had ruptured the diesel tank of the wagon so we were lying in diesel fuel.
One amusing moment during the rescue I recall when we attempted to cut the trapped persons shoes, he complained to us that they were very expensive shoes , which did bring on a few stares among the rescue crew.
In addition to the two firefighters in the photograph I recall Dave Lawson, George Mullaney who came with the Emergency Tender and myself Bob France attended this incident. If you were their please let us no.
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