CALLOUT: The Cave Rescue Organisation
A WALKER was airlifted to hospital after sustaining a suspected femur fracture at a Yorkshire Dales beauty spot.
The 59-year-old woman slipped on wet limestone at the edge of Malham Beck - at Malham Cove - yesterday.
The Cave Rescue Organisation (CRO) was called out to the incident at around 12.40pm.
A CRO spokesman said the woman had sustained a 'suspected mid-shaft fracture of her left femur'.
Yorkshire Ambulance Service paramedics administered pain relief then immobilised the limb. CRO team members stretchered the casualty to a waiting air ambulance.
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