A younger Scot has miraculously escaped critical harm after unintentionally strolling off a 15ft cliff and plunging onto rocks.
Mikey Hutton was on a video name along with his brother after getting misplaced on his method house from an evening out in Kirkcaldy, Fife, on Saturday.
The 32-year-old acquired off the practice at Burntisland station and was trying to stroll again to his house in Kinghorn when he acquired confused and went the fallacious method.
The labourer wasn’t trying the place he was going and plunged down the cliff face earlier than touchdown wedged between two rocks.
After his relative raised the alarm, police, HM Coastguard rescue crews and RNLI Kinghorn scrambled to avoid wasting him however have been trying within the fallacious location on account of Mikey being disoriented.
He was informed to obtain the what3words app and was discovered nearly right away earlier than being rushed to the Victoria Hospital for therapy.
Mikey has determined to talk out to boost consciousness concerning the cell phone app which he firmly believes saved his life as a result of incoming tide.
He mentioned: “I used to be heading again house from an evening out and I acquired on the practice at 11.48pm, heading in the direction of Kinghorn the place I usually get off.
“However after I tried to get off, the doorways didn’t open and so I needed to get off on the subsequent cease in Burntisland which I don’t know properly.
“I used to be fairly drunk so I referred to as my brother and informed him I’d stroll again house going the identical route that the practice went. However I’ve really headed within the fallacious route.
“I wasn’t trying the place I used to be going as a result of I used to be on the telephone to my brother and I’ve ended up strolling onto the coastal path and fell off the cliff.
“It was a 15ft drop and straight onto rocks. I landed in between two rocks. I grazed my arms and my decrease again, in the direction of my hip, was like a balloon.
“My brother tried to name the police and so they have been telling me to shout as loud as I might. However they couldn’t discover me as a result of I assumed I used to be some other place.
“The police then informed me to obtain an app referred to as what3words on my telephone and so they have been capable of finding me right away.
“Once they couldn’t discover me, they referred to as my brother and have been double checking that he was being critical as a result of there was a hoax name ongoing on the similar time.
“That app completely saved my life.
“I used to be taken to the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy for a CT scan and it got here again all clear - I simply had bruising on my again. I can’t consider I haven’t damaged any bones.
“They informed me that I used to be actually fortunate as a result of the tide was coming in and that app saved me.”
Police Scotland and HM Coastguard confirmed they have been referred to as to studies of an injured individual on a seashore on the Fife coast within the early hours of Sunday morning.
A power spokesperson added: “We have been referred to as round 0.15am on Sunday, April 3, to a report of a priority for an individual on the seashore entrance space of Burntisland close to Monks Stroll.
“Emergency providers attended and a 32-year-old man, who had fallen and sustained a again harm, was taken to the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy by the Scottish Ambulance Service for therapy.”
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