She had fallen over seven feet from riverside path to the foreshore

The Chiswick RNLI lifeboat was called to Strand on the Green this Sunday evening (22 July) to rescue a cyclist who had fallen onto the foreshore.

Just after 10pm, they received a report of an injured woman near the Bull’s Head pub. On arrival they found her on the foreshore after having fallen two metres from the riverside path.

The lifeboat crew treated her for a head injury and then working with London Ambulance Service paramedics they transferred her onto a stretcher so she could be taken off the forshoree. The crew had to work rapidly as there was only one metre of foreshore left with a rapidly rising tide.

An RNLI spokesman said, “We deal with a number of incidents each year where people have fallen some distance onto the foreshore with the possibility of spinal or head injury. The lifeboat is able to reach these casualties very quickly; in many cases the river wall is much higher than in this case and casualties are speedily evacuated in the lifeboat.”

Chiswick RNLI lifeboat station is the second busiest in the UK and Ireland. Since The RNLI search and rescue service on the Thames started in 2002, Chiswick Lifeboat has attended one 3,200 incidents and rescued over 1,620 people. The RNLI is entirely funded by public donations.

July 23, 2018