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Man scalped whilst guiding a hire boat under a low bridge in Norfolk
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Man scalped whilst guiding a hire boat under a low bridge in Norfolk
A man has been taken to hospital with serious scalp injuries after hitting his head on a Norfolk Broads National Park bridge whilst guiding his hire boat went under it.
A 66-year-old man was steering his hire boat under the low level Ludham Bridge crossing in Norfolk England,
On approaching the bridge, he ducked his head, but lifted it too early. As a result, the skin on the top of his scalp was scraped off by the bridge’s underside, leaving his wife to commandeer the boat as he fell to the floor.
The Hemsby inshore lifeboat crew, who administered emergency first aid after being paged by Humber Coastguard reported, the man’s wife did a “fantastic job” of staying calm given the circumstances.
Daniel Hurd, the Hemsby inshore lifeboat coxswain, said: “The poor gentleman who was injured was knocked down, and his wife did a fantastic job of pulling the boat over to the side where she then called for help.
“The skin on his head had sort of come off in two parts: it looked extremely painful.
“We dressed the man’s wounds before an ambulance transferred him to the James Paget Hospital in Great Yarmouth for further treatment.”
He added: “We respond to all kinds of incidents on the Norfolk Broads National Park but this is the first of its kind.”
The
hire companies give a brief training session before the hire crafts are taken
onto the open water and warning signs are in place on the low bridges, but the
inexperience in navigating the hire crafts result in accidents, sadly some of
them are fatal ones
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