In a scene similar to the movie ‘The happening’ British Coastguard crews were forced to dodge a second suicide jumper while trying to retrieve the body of an earlier suicide jumper.
The 12-person rescue crew was trying to remove a man’s body that children had spotted in the waves when a Toyota 4×4 plunged 500 feet and landed a few yards away.
The traumatized crew and a helicopter team scrambled to find the driver.
“The chaplaincy at Eastbourne contacted us after some kids said there was a body floating in the water,” Dover Coastguard’s rescue center manager, Spike Hughes, told the Daily Mail. “We were preparing to retrieve the body when all of a sudden a car drove off the cliff at the same time.
The Cliff is a popular suicide spot with about 20 jumpers a year plunging from Beachy Head cliff.
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