A woman was airlifted to hospital after being thrown from her horse on a mid Wales beach.

Aberystwyth and Borth coastguards teams were called out to an emergency call yesterday morning (December 11) after passing family reported that a woman had been thrown from her horse on Ynslas beach.

A spokesperson for Aberystwyth Coastguard said: "The casualty was made as comfortable as possible whilst awaiting the arrival of colleagues from Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust.

“Once on scene it was decided that due to the undulating and rocky terrain the safest extraction method would be by helicopter and so Coastguard team members secured a landing site for the inbound Coastguard Rescue Helicopter 936.

“The casualty was then packaged and transferred by helicopter across the beach to the waiting ambulance, who then took them the rest of the way to hospital via road.”

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Teams were initially alerted to the incident by a passing family who ran to the local Canolfan Ymwelwyr Dyfi Ynyslas Visitor Centre for help as there was no phone signal in the area to call for help.

In a statement online the centre said: “A note as well to say a huge thank you to the family who helped a woman on the beach yesterday who had come off her horse.

"They didn't have phone signal, so one of them ran to the centre for help. The lady is currently being treated in hospital.”

The coastguard said that the response had been “another great example of multi-agency working” and added “our thanks also to colleagues from Borth RNLI Lifeboat Station who travelled by road to Ynyslas to assist with this incident and to the staff on hand at Canolfan Ymwelwyr Dyfi Ynyslas Visitor Centre for their help and assistance throughout.”