British woman, 55, hospitalised after Ibiza balcony fall
Monday, May 11, 2015 @ 10:51 AM
A BRITISH woman aged 55 is said to be in a serious condition after falling from a second-floor hotel balcony on the Avenida Doctor Fleming in San Antonio, Ibiza.
The circumstances behind her fall are not known, but witnesses say she was very 'stressed out and upset'.
She has suffered injuries to her spinal column and is in Ibiza's Can Misses hospital.
A series of falls from balconies has blighted the Balearic Islands this weekend – a 46-year-old man lost his life in the early hours of Sunday after plummeting from a terrace in the Casablanca Apartments in Santa Ponça, part of the town of Calvià (Mallorca), and a 27-year-old man is in a critical condition following an eight-metre fall from an apartment in Palma on Saturday night.
Just a week ago, a 58-year-old man, believed to be British, fell from the balcony of an apartment block on the Punta Ballena strip in Magaluf, also part of Calvià and was killed instantly in the impact, whilst another man sustained multiple fractures on the same day after an accidental plunge from a first-floor apartment in Palma.
Falls from apartment or hotel patios become a regular occurrence in Ibiza and Mallorca every summer, although not all of them are accidental.
The British Foreign Office website has warned against the foolhardy practice of 'balconing', whereby young European tourists – often from the UK and frequently under the influence of alcohol – attempt to jump into the swimming pool from their hotel balconies or hop from terrace to terrace.
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