A BUSY weekend for the Great North Air Ambulance Service saw crews called out to incidents across the region.

In County Durham, a boy who fell off a bike and woman who came off her horse were treated by the crew before being taken by ambulance to hospital.

A man who fell from a height in Northumberland and a woman who had an accident in The Lake District both had to be airlifted to hospital.

At 1.10pm on Sunday, a crew was called to Newton Aycliffe where a teenager had fallen off a push bike.

He was assessed and treated by the GNAAS doctor and paramedic team and taken to James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough by a North East Ambulance Service road crew, where he was said to be in a stable condition.

At 3pm that day, the air ambulance was deployed to Esh Winning, near Durham, where a woman in her 40s had fallen off her horse. The air ambulance’s doctor-led trauma team treated her before she was taken to the University Hospital of North Durham by land ambulance. She arrived in a stable condition.

Over in Cumbria, the air ambulance was called to assist Patterdale Mountain Rescue Team at Grisedale Valley where a woman, believed to be in her 60s, had fallen.

She was assessed and treated by the GNAAS paramedic and doctor team before being flown to the Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle. The flight took 12 minutes and she arrived in a stable condition.

A man, believed to be in his 60s, was critically injured when he fell about three metres in Seahouses, Northumberland. He was assessed and treated by the GNAAS team before being flown to the RVI in Newcastle.