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- Mar 12, 2024
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Woman survives 150ft jump from Forth bridge
A woman who threw herself 150 feet from the Forth road bridge in Scotland has become only the third person to survive the fall since the bridge opened in 1964.
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If this was onto concrete I'd have no doubt she'd be dead.
But even though hitting water at 150ft is still very likely death, I think it's difficult if you hit concrete.
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Ms Valentine, from the West Lothian village of Uphall, was plucked from the icy waters of the Firth of Forth by a passing yachtsman. The South Queensferry lifeboat and another rescue boat went to help. They towed the small yacht to a nearby pier, from where an ambulance took the young woman 10 miles to hospital at about 5.30pm on Wednesday.
"If this lady survives she will be incredibly lucky," said a spokesman for the South Queensferry lifeboat.
"It is very, very rare for someone to survive that fall. It is an horrendous drop. Plunging from that height is like hitting a concrete wall."
The last person to survive was a 19-year-old man from Fife, who jumped in March, 1998. His leap was watched by a Royal Navy cadet and an army corporal who were passing beneath the bridge in a speedboat. When they hauled him from the water he was still conscious. He is believed to have survived because the rucksack he was wearing cushioned his high-speed impact with the water.
Ms Valentine's neighbours described her as a quiet person who lived alone.
Her next door neighbour, Lucy Henderson, said: "I can't believe she would do something like that. She is a lovely young girl, always very nice."