Video captures man's 30ft fall onto pavement while climbing up drainpipe in Doncaster
“He had an argument and went up a pipe”
This is the horrific moment a man plunged 30ft onto a pavement in the heart of Doncaster city centre after scaling a drainpipe.
WARNING: SOME PEOPLE MAY FIND VIDEO UPSETTING
Police and ambulances scrambled to Cleveland Street shortly after 8pm on August 3 after the man was filmed losing his footing and falling onto the ground below.
The man escaped with cuts and bruises but was taken to hospital following the incident.
Footage shot from outside the Angel and Royal pub shows the man climbing towards a top floor window of a building, using a drainpipe to scale the side of the premises.
As he came back down the side of the building, he slipped, lost his footing and crashed onto the pavement below, to the gasps and screams of onlookers.
One eyewitness said: “He had had an argument and went up the pipe.
“After the fall, he was consicious and making groaning noises. It took an hour or more to get him stable.”
A photo from the scene showed four ambulances and three police cars in attendance, although a South Yorkshire Police spokesperson said its officers had not been involved in the incident.
A spokesperson for Yorkshire Ambulance Service said: “We received an emergency call at 8.04pm last night to report a person who had fallen from height on Cleveland Street in Doncaster.
“A number of ambulance resources were dispatched to the scene, including two ambulances and a team leader, and one patient was conveyed to hospital.”