A mum who was left stranded with a fractured back after being thrown off a frightened horse was rescued thanks to a location app pointing paramedics to where she was. Rachel Moyes, 41, an occupational therapist and fitness business owner, was trapped on the ground, in agony and unable to move, in an outdoor riding arena near an isolated barn.
Unsure where she was, she managed to reach her mobile phone that was tucked into her riding boot and used the what3words app to guide paramedics to her location after she fractured four vertebrae in the fall in June 2022. Rachel, who lives in Midlothian, Scotland, with her partner, Gordon Cooper, 45, her two children, Patrick, 20, and Oliver, eight, and Gordon’s children, Daniel, 18, and Amy, 10, said: “There was nobody around when I fell and no one would have heard me if I shouted.
“I was completely stuck. It was only by chance that I had what3words on my phone, so an ambulance was able to come and rescue me.”
