Teenager suffers suspected spinal injury after jumping off rocks into sea in Dorset

The Air Ambulance took the patient to Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester. Credit: Weymouth Lifeboat

A teenager has suffered a suspected spinal injury after jumping off the rocks into the sea in Dorset.

Weymouth RNLI’s inshore and all-weather lifeboats launched yesterday afternoon (Monday 12 August) to reports of a male casualty near Lulworth Cove.

A young male had reportedly jumped off the rocks into the water at Man O’War beach and suffered a suspected spinal injury.

The Air Ambulance took the patient to Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester.

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