WHEN Amy Williams was left unable to move in a hunting accident, it was County Air Ambulance paramedics who helped pull her through.

Now she wants to highlight the swift and vital service.

Amy was one of a group of people – beaters, pickers-up and guns for the Cold Aston Shoot, near Bourton-on-the-Water – who held a clay pigeon shooting event to raise £425 for the cause.

Amy said: "I was out hunting with The Heythrop in early February when I had a nasty accident and fractured four vertebrae in my back. I was unable to move or feel my legs and we were in the middle of nowhere.

"The air ambulance arrived within 15 minutes of being called and paramedics immediately gave me the necessary medical attention to get me on to a spinal board and into the helicopter, which had to land on a ploughed field in difficult country.

"I was taken to Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, where I was treated and spent the next three months on my back.

"The doctors said I was very close to not walking again, and without the efficient and smooth ride to the hospital in such a short period of time in the helicopter, I may not have been so lucky."

Amy rallied supporters to the fundraising shoot, run by her partner Oliver Cope.

She added: "We wanted to highlight how important the air ambulance charity is to everybody, and especially those who live, work and play in the countryside."