The hovercraft assisted Hunstanton Coastguard Rescue Team and East of England Ambulance Service in aiding a fallen horse rider with suspected spinal injuries (Image: RNLI Hunstanton)
A woman was rescued from a Norfolk beach after suffering spinal injuries when she fell from a horse.
Hunstanton RNLI launched its hovercraft on Holme beach at 6.55pm on September 3 to help the woman.
Teams from the Hunstanton Coastguard and the ambulance service were also involved.
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The incoming spring tide was fast approaching, so emergency service teams decided the best way to move the woman was to put her on the hovercraft in a stretcher, to take her up to the dunes.
The casualty was then carried through the dunes to an ambulance which took her to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for further care.
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