Safety Spotlight - Cliff slip calamity and a close call. Don't let it happen to you
Majestic and beautiful, our coastal cliffs are there to be enjoyed but a slip, trip or fall can happen in a split second. Don’t let a cliff calamity happen to you. Just last week, a slip up on a sunny day out on cliffs in Dorset turned a lovely walk with friends into a very close call. It could easily have been so very much worse. Alex Tridico slipped on the cliff edge at popular walking spot Old Harry Rocks on May Bank Holiday weekend and fell around 100 feet into the water below. Miraculously he survived, with serious but treatable injuries; three broken ribs and a collapsed lung. Old Harry Rocks. Shutterstock “This is it” From hospital just a few days after the incident, Alex told ITV’s Meridian News that when he slipped, his first thought was “this is it, that’s where I’m going to die”. i Credit: ITV Meridian “There was nothing near me to grab or try to hold onto,” said Alex. When he knew he was going to fall, he made a split second decision to push himself as far away ...