MOUNTAIN DRAMA
TWO-HOUR WAIT FOR DOCTOR How a young man lay dying on a mountain top for two hours before a doctor could reach him, was revealed following the death of a competitor in the mo tor-cycle races in the Isle of Man. The victim was J. Cooke, who was fatally injured in the T.T. Lightweight race at a point where the road passes the summit of Snaefell Mountain. So furious was the gale that there were no spectators at that particular point. A following competitor, who nearly ran over Cooke, carried him to the roadside, and went on to the Bungalow. asking that a doctor be sent. There was no doctor there, so he left another message at Craig-ny-Baa.
A party th€*n set off for an ambulance, and at last secured one. and a doctor started from Craig-ny-Baa; but he had a tiva miles’ walk up the mountain before lie could roach Snaefell. At hist, after Cooke had been lying Unattended for about two hours, the doctor arrived, and discovered that the base of the skull was fractured. He Was carried ‘down the mountain road on a stretcher, back to the Bungalow, and then on the mountain railway to Ramsay Hospital.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 170, 8 October 1927, Page 27 (Supplement)
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202MOUNTAIN DRAMA Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 170, 8 October 1927, Page 27 (Supplement)
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