“At the hospital, they told me if I’d come in even a few minutes later I wouldn’t be here.”
John Larter was watching Countdown one Thursday afternoon, when he suddenly felt unwell. Within minutes he collapsed on the living room floor.
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In November last year, Caroline Halliday was on an evening dog walk with her husband Paul when she suddenly collapsed and stopped breathing.
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Emily was just 18 months old when she became seriously ill in October 2016.
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“The air ambulance landed on the riverbed and the paramedics climbed through barbed wire to reach Freddie.”
Freddie Little was biking in Bishops Woods near the Camel Trail when he had his accident on 24 March. The 16-year-old was thrown over the handlebars on his mountain bike when a jump went wrong.
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“If I hadn’t got to the hospital as quickly as I did, I wouldn’t be here.”
On the day of his accident, Karl Dexter was enjoying a motorbike ride on a sunny day in February 2017. As he approached a bend on the A39 he had a head-on collision with a car travelling in the opposite direction.
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“Harry is doing very well now and a lot of that is down to the responsiveness of the Cornwall Air Ambulance”
A trip to the coast turned into a lifechanging experience for the Roberts family when they were on holiday in Cornwall last year. Five-year-old Harry was excitedly heading towards Trevone Beach on April 11 when he suddenly fell of the cliff and fell 6 metres on to rocks below.
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“If I went by land ambulance I might not be here; it made a huge difference to me.”
A short trip to the shop turned into a life-changing journey for motorcyclist Tim May when he was airlifted by Cornwall Air Ambulance following a collision with a car.
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