Cliff path fall man, 68, suffers multiple injuries

Thursday 13th August 2009, 2:01PM BST.

A german pensioner was badly hurt after a cliff path fall in Sark yesterday. 0822846
Guernsey’s inshore rescue team was on a training exercise when it was called to Dixcart Bay to rescue the 68-year-old man who had fallen 10ft down steps onto the beach.
Joerg Hoffman, a German national with a home on the island, broke his leg in two places and suffered head and wrist injuries.
The crew transferred him to the Flying Christine marine ambulance and, at 5.15pm, he was transferred to the Princess Elizabeth Hospital in Guernsey.
Mr Hoffman’s wife called Sark constable Alan Blyth because she was unable to get a telephone signal for the local doctor’s number.
Mr Blyth notified the ambulance crew, who arrived along with the fire crew.
‘Everything was in place so quickly,’ he said. ‘I was so amazed.