Miracle Escape For 11-Year-Old Girl After Car Rolls Off Cliff
An 11-year-old girl cheated death when she jumped out of a car just before it rolled off a cliff. The girl leapt out just before the car plunged down the 250ft precipice at Benllech, Anglesey, in north Wales.
She was listening to music in the car at a campsite at around 4.15pm yesterday when she accidentally knocked the handbrake off, said a spokesman for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
Despite repeated and frantic attempts, she could not pull it up. But, as the vehicle got to within a few feet of the cliff face, she managed to fling herself to safety.
Dave Massey, a paramedic and RNLI volunteer in Moelfre, was the first person on the scene.
He said: ‘It is a miracle she survived and that she had the presence of mind to jump out at the last second. There is no doubt that she would never have survived that fall.’
The vehicle plummeted down the sheer drop and crashed into rocks before being submerged in water.
RNLI and Coastguard teams searched the water to check for any other casualties but confirmed no one else was hurt in the incident.
The girl, who was staying with her grandparents at the campsite, and who hails from the Kinmel Bay area near Rhyl, Denbighshire, was taken to Ysbyty Gwynedd hospital in Bangor by ambulance.
Mr Massey said she had minor cuts and scratches and was ‘very distressed and very shaken up indeed’.
He added that the car had taken several tents with it as it gathered momentum down the hill, but luckily no one was inside them. Police will attempt to recover the car this morning.
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