Shocking moment teen, 15, falls 60ft down cliff and fractures his skull while chasing goats in Australia
THE moment a teenager fell down a cliff while chasing goats has been captured on video.
Nathan Datson, 15, was at Bells Rapids overlooking the Swan River, northeast of Perth, when he slipped and fell.
Video shows him on the rocks with three goats below and them him hurtling on to the rocks.
The impact broke Nathan’s wrist and elbow and also fractured his skull.
A drone operator was in the area and caught the whole incident on camera.
The teen’s friend, Patrick, watched him fall and he tried to use his phone to call for help, but it was locked.
Thinking quickly, he used Siri to call for Nathan’s dad, who then alerted rescue services, news.com.au reported.
Nathan drifted in and out of consciousness as rescue services worked for two hours to extract him and get him to hospital.
“I fractured my wrist and my elbow, I think I got a bruise to my lungs and a fractured skull,” Nathan said.
“I feel pretty surprised that I’m still alive.”
The terrain was so tough that even rescue volunteers were injured in the pouring rain
As he tumbled down the cliff he got caught in a gap, which prevented him from falling even further and possibly saved his life.
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Nathan’s dad, Ben Datson called his survival “a miracle”.
“He found the only protruding rock out the side of the waterfall and he hit it, jamming himself in there,” he said.
“He’d come to for a minute and roar like a lion in pain.”
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