Saving Lives In The Skies: A shift with Midlands Air Ambulance...

Sep 14, 2015, 08:55 AM

(Broadcast on BBC Radio Stoke, September 2015)

It's been three months since four people were seriously injured on The Smiler roller-coaster at Alton Towers.

Two of the victims underwent leg amputations during weeks of treatment at the Royal Stoke University Hospital.

But it was the actions of medics at the scene of the crash that day in Staffordshire which played a vital role in saving their lives.

BBC Radio Stoke's Emma Thomas has been to spend a shift with one part of their response, the Midlands Air Ambulance....