A wheelchair user has been transferred from the beach at St Helens into an awaiting ambulance after a fall of several feet from the revetment at The Duver tonight (Sunday).
The casualty is thought to have come off the concrete wall running along The Duver at around 20:40, prompting an emergency 999 call from family members.
HM Coastguard and the Isle of Wight Ambulance Service have both responded to the incident in fading light, with 2 paramedic crews dispatched.
The casualty has now been packaged onto a stretcher and successfully carried up the steps and into the ambulance for onward conveyance to St Mary’s Hospital – more than an hour after the seaside fall.
Meanwhile, the fold-away manual wheelchair has been taken away by family members.
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He was passed as a fart. Drinking at the baywatch all-day. What a waste of more tax payers money
Should have had a 4×4 chair…..
Safety rails should be erected on this seafront and Safety rails should
be erected on many other seaside paths.
Safety on the Island is very poor.
Hope the patient is well.
Let’s just all walk around in bubble wrap, how ridiculous safety is of your own common sense and concern, people like you are the reason we have slippery when wet signs on a slipway, I say let nature do its thing for once so the most clueless idiotic and brain dead people aren’t saved at every corner, you should watch idiocracy you’ll understand exactly what I’m saying.
Many other Seaside resorts have rails all the length of the Seafront.
Take a trip to Eastbourne and you will see how much safer Eastbourne is.
On the island the Council have no idea about Health & Safety
There is NO HEALTH AND SAFETY on the Island, anyone who believes otherwise
is deluded.
Well based on that thinking, how about banning people from going in the water. By comparison, way more people die in the water than topple from a parapet. And even more have accidents falling down stairs. Would you ban stairs? And fingers.. they could have your eye out! Bottom line is that anyone could come a cropper on anything given the right circumstances be it alcohol, daftness, short sightedness or other misfortune and it’s pointless trying to nanny or legislate.
In defense of the notion of rails I think that would be a good idea, what if a child dashed off the edge? Its not a bad idea and you turning it into a matter of a lemming is ridiculous. Some legalisations are binding unnecessarily but it’s quite a fall down and he was lucky he didnt land on his head so implementing some safety measures like railings on a 20ft drop is more sensible than anything you’ve just said…
This parochial attitude, whilst well meant, is just that, parochial. Travel around the world to third world countries not only broadens the mind but gives a sense of perspective on where real jeopardy lies. And the importance of personal responsibility so we aren’t all reliant on others taking responsibility for us.
Theres a reason they’re 3rd world countries. I’m not saying people should walk around in bubble wrap or that every concrete road erected should have sponges on them but I’m saying there are certain scenarios that warrant a healthy suggestion and this is one and your acting like a moron because you feel like this is infringing on your life get a grip old man progression happens, we learn from mistakes, and yeah I have my faculties in place for now but not everyone does and I’m not prepared to write them off. Its aragant people like you who I’d thin out
Your level of unfounded aggression is no doubt borne of ignorance and the inability to conduct a reasonable dialogue. In addition I find your inaccurate assumption that I’m both old and a male interesting.
The revetment at the Duver has been like that for countless years (I have spent time there regularly for over 60 years,..) and has ever been considered as a safety issue before.
TBH it’s just common sense that if there’s a drop like that, it’s a good idea to make sure you don’t fall off it.
Why do those of us who do actually possess common sense, have to me restricted and ‘protected’ because of the increasing number of people who, it seems, don’t posess it…
Unfortunately it seems like common sense, just isn’t common, any more.. probably (in part) because of all the railings that are put in place so people don’t need it…
(BTW it’s nowhere near 20ft)
Many other Seaside resorts have rails all the length of the Seafront.
Take a trip to Eastbourne and you will see how much safer Eastbourne is.
On the island the Council have no idea about Health & Safety
There is NO HEALTH AND SAFETY on the Island, anyone who believes otherwise
is deluded.
When it’s their old mother that falls down or there grandchild then they will be eating their words. Dont worry the islands filled with simple people who have their arse between their legs.
One would hope that the elderly mother and parents of children would have more sense than to be walking along the edge of a revetment in near darkness at 8.30 at night.
Why don’t you just go to Eastbourne then. Not everyone wants rails everywhere. Who knows someone small may hang themselves if wearing a scarf! It is historically rail free and it should stay rail free. I’m 77 and don’t want rails everywhere. Let’s put rails at Culver and Freshwater too while we are at it and heaven forbid we step into the road. Its up to people to be aware and parents to watch children who are usually sure footed. Otherwise use the paths and beach on the flat.
Also perhaps you will foot the nill.
It’s the same old thing people on here, they’re shuttered off to the real world, health and safety is a new fangled thing too and they don’t want it.
All for the sake of not messing up the view or walkway just kill a few a kids or old people in their scooters shall we!?it’ll be their own bloody fault of course!
If you’re looking for logic or sympathy don’t look for it here with these nasty old farts!
What??? I hope you’re not driving.
I’m so sorry I didn’t mean to send things like this I was trying not really mean it but I’m just really upset about the situation I don’t want you guys going to get sick I don’t know if I can help but I’m really upset because I’m really sorry and I’m just so sorry I can’t be with my kids anymore and I’m just trying not right and I’m just trying not trying and I just want you guys and I’m so sorry I don’t want to be with you anymore and I don’t want to be with you and I don’t want to be with you and I just want to have you are just trying so bad so bad for the kids are just so sad I can’t even talk right away I’m so upset because you are so sorry for the kids and I just want to be with you and I don’t want to be with you’re so bad and you
I think he must be flying by the sounds of it.
At least the wheelchair was taken home safely
And the person “packaged on to a stretcher”.
How did he get that far from the edge if he rolled over? normally things stop when they fall onto sand.
good point,..
& if you look at the photo, the place where they are all standing, seems to be next the breakwater & at that point there are steps,.. with railings !!!,.. so no edge to fall off.
Why wasn’t his mates looking after him, why was the chair breaks faulty. And no great loss to society as likely claiming every benefit going hence able to be drunk.
Could be just a compo fraud claim, if no one witnessed other than mates.
Just because someone is disabled, don’t all mean they are ‘nice’ people.
&rocket power jumping? on the beach from there