Porthleven cliff plunge: Three teenagers suffer life-threatening injuries after 70ft fall

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One of the men was able to provide the exact location of the accident to the Coastguard by using the torch on his mobile phone.

Three teenagers are in hospital with potentially life-threatening injuries after plunging 70ft from cliffs on to a beach in Cornwall.

Despite his wounds, one of the three managed to call the Coastguard to request help at Parc Trammel Cove, near the town of Porthleven, at just after midnight on Sunday.Emergency services including Coastguard teams, an RNLI lifeboat, paramedics and police descended on the scene to aid the injured trio, one aged 18 and two aged 19, who were airlifted to Derriford Hospital in Plymouth.

Their families have been informed of the incident, which left each of the men with multiple serious injuries, which have been described as potentially life-threatening or life-changing.Martin Leslie, coastal operations area commander, said the Coastguard helicopter crew that transferred them to the air ambulance had shown"outstanding skills" to get to the scene and rescue the men.

 

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The local authority should invest in lots of instantly inflatable floating trampolines with object speed detectors at the cliff base. Then when an object (person) falls from the top of the cliff to the ground, the trampolines pop-up and the objects (people) bounce back. 🤪Sorted

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