Giant's Causeway visitor rescued after suffering 'traumatic injuries' in fall from height

A person has suffered "traumatic injuries" after falling at Giant's Causeway.

Coleraine and Ballycastle Coastguard teams were tasked to help the Ambulance Service with the recovery of a casualty on Wednesday.

They said the person had fallen from a height on the stones at Giant's Causeway, sustaining "traumatic injuries".

A spokesperson for the Ambulance Service said it received a 999 call at around 2.42pm following reports of an incident in the Causeway Road area of Bushmills.

"NIAS despatched one emergency crew to the incident," they said.

"Following assessment and initial treatment at the scene, one patient was taken to Causeway Hospital by ambulance."

In a Facebook post, Coleraine Coastguard explained how the casualty was rescued across the difficult terrain.

"The casualty was recovered to the waiting ambulance using our rope rescue stretcher by a combination of hand carry and 'caterpillar' technique, a method of slowly passing the stretcher along parallel lines of rescue officers to clear treacherous terrain," it said.

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