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Kapiti Man injured in jump from cliff 15 metres above stream
Kapiti Man injured in jump from cliff 15 metres above stream
A Life Flight team rescued a man who
was seriously injured when he jumped from a cliff towards a
water hole and missed.
Life Flight responded with a
Wellington Free Ambulance Paramedic onboard the Westpac
Rescue Helicopter.
The team responded to the
accident in a stream near Reikorangi, east of Waikane,
around 6:15 pm this evening.
The helicopter was
able to land in a rock bed near the patient, who was being
cared for on our arrival by four WFA
paramedics.
“A friend said the man jumped from
near the top of a hill and landed on the bank of the river
instead of the deep water hole” says Dave Greenberg, Life
Flight crewman. “The jump was from about 15 metres
above the stream”.
The Kapiti man, in his
20’s, is suffering from multiple injuries.
The
man has been transported to the Wellington Hospital
Emergency Department where he is currently being treated and
assessed.
The Life Flight Trust is a charity
providing air rescue and air ambulance services. It operates
the Wellington based Westpac Rescue Helicopter and a
national air ambulance service. It relies on support from
the public and sponsorship from partners such as Westpac to
provide these services. Further information can be obtained
from www.lifeflight.org.nz
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