Madness! Wheelchair on a cliff edge
IT was the perfect weather yesterday to enjoy a relaxing seaside stroll. But anyone watching this wheelchair user and her companions must have had their hearts in their mouths.
The group of youngsters came within a metre of the edge of these crumbling cliffs – so close that they at one stage appeared to be peering over a drop of around 320ft.
The National Trust, which owns the land, warns that sudden cliff falls can happen at Birling Gap in East Sussex, with the chalk eroding at a rate of up to 10ft a year.
Teenagers have previously been seen taking selfies with their back to the edge of the nearby Seven Sisters cliffs. In July last year, musician Nick Cave’s 15-year-old son Arthur died after he fell 60ft from Ovingdean Gap, also in East Sussex.
Eastbourne Lifeboats have warned that someone will die if walkers continue to get too close to the edge of the cliffs.