Amy was a mile away from the car park when she heard her ankle snap on loose gravel.
After two years on the waiting list, Eddie finally received the call he had been holding out for. A set of suitable lungs were available.
“I will never know why I lived and my beautiful daughter died in that accident. I only know that without SCAA, two people would have lost their lives on the A9 that day instead of one.”
When Kath signed up for the Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance (SCAA) lottery, she couldn’t have known she would require our frontline service 10 years later following a road traffic collision.
Black Isle couple Maru and Kenny faced their worst fears when their usually healthy and fun-loving 12-year-old daughter Alma was diagnosed with a spinal tumour.
Panic set in for Pamela when symptoms left her struggling to breathe while home alone.
Eilidh, from North Uist, was 34 weeks into her third pregnancy when a routine midwife appointment at her local hospital revealed a worrying test result.
Within minutes she was in a world of pain, terror and despair as she was crushed, dragged, tossed and trampled by a herd of cattle on the approach footpath to her first ascent.
Adam left his house that day for a fun day out on his motorbike with friends at Craiglash Quarry in Aberdeenshire, but events soon left him in desperate, urgent need of air ambulance support.
“I heard my leg crack, and when I tried to move it, I could feel my foot dragging along the ground like a heavy weight.”
Within minutes a bone-shattering fall on some treacherous black ice turned a routine day into a hell of pain and fear she will never forget.
Sandra watched on as her 11-year-old son Seb competed in a motocross race in Elgin. He had just passed his cheering family when he clipped the side of the track, lost control of his bike and crashed.
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