Emergency services including Police Scotland and D&G Council staff along with Volunteers from Moffat Mountain Rescue battled through the snow through the night to rescue 12 people stuck in their vehicles in snow drifts on the A702 Dalveen Pass.
During the evening of 12 February 2020 Moffat Mountain Rescue Team were already part of a multi-agency response monitoring the effect of an Amber Met Office weather warning for snow in Dumfries and Galloway.
Dumfries and Galloway Division from Police Scotland and Dumfries and Galloway Council requested the response of the team to multiple cars stuck on the Dalveen Pass road. The team dispatched two off road vehicles including the Teams landrover to scene.
The vehicles battled through poor weather and reached the stranded occupants late in the evening. A total of 12 people were extracted from vehicles and ferried to safety using the team landrover.
The team eventually arrived back home in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
One partner. No competitors. Full visibility across the region.
