Experienced Dalbeattie runner suffers broken leg after fall on Stewartry hill

An experienced runner and mountaineer suffered a broken leg after falling on a hill.

Kerstin Kinnaird of Dalbeattie had to be airlifted to hospital after slipping on wet rocks between Bengairn and Screel while out for a run on Sunday morning.

Galloway Mountain Rescue Team was called out at 10.20am to help Kerstin, who was being looked after by friends and fellow runners Craig Malcolmson, Adam Dickie and Seb Pflanz.

They kept her warm and stable until the mountain rescue team arrived. Team members gave her some medication and put her onto their stretcher so she could be winched aboard the HM Coastguard Search and Rescue helicopter when it arrived from Prestwick.

She was then taken to Dumfries Infirmary where she was treated for a broken leg.

Kerstin would like to thank Craig, Adam and Seb for their help as well as Colin, Chippy and the rest of the mountain rescue team for getting her off the hill in such a fast time.

She is now recovering in DGRI and would like to thank the doctors and nurses there for the fabulous care she has received.

A spokesman for Galloway Mountain Rescue Team, who were being deployed for the first time in 2022, said: “We wish the casualty all the best for a speedy recovery and also to thank the other people on the hill who did a great job looking after the casualty until the team members arrived.”