Rescue 999: Seconds to Save a Life: Season 1, Episode 3

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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.

In the Peak District, Edale Mountain Rescue team have a tricky emergency evacuation carrying a stretcher up a narrow, rocky pathway after a walker has slipped and fallen down a steep slope, with a suspected head injury.

There's a desperate search in the Highlands for the Assynt Mountain Rescue Team after a pair of walkers are missing on a hike up Ben Klibreck to their campsite. It's a race against time to search the mountain, before both the fog and darkness set in.

And in Hampshire the GAFIRS lifeboat is launched in treacherous rough seas to rescue a broken-down boat severely battered by waves, pushing it perilously towards the shoreline. With a jammed anchor the possibility of towing the boat out of danger becomes a big challenge.