Cliff fall man saved by tree
Updated 15.33 Fri Aug 29 2008
A tree has saved a 32-year-old man's life after he fell off a 100ft cliff at a holiday resort.
The man only suffered a leg injury when he landed in the tree around 50 feet down the cliff face at Hope's Nose, near Torquay in Devon.
The man only suffered a leg injury when he landed in the tree around 50 feet down the cliff face
The alarm was raised when he was spotted by a member of the public, a Brixham Coastguard spokesman said.
"Luckily he had landed in the roots of a tree," said the spokesman.
Coastguard teams from Berry Head and Torbay strapped the man into a stretcher and lowered him to the waiting Torbay inshore lifeboat.
He was then taken to Torbay Hospital by land ambulance for treatment.
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