Woman taken to hospital after falling from mobility scooter in Great Yarmouth
Published:
4:50 PM August 8, 2017
Updated:
11:13 AM October 10, 2020
The ambulance service were called to the incident on Great Yarmouth seafront. Picture: Archant Library.
A woman was taken to hospital after falling from a mobility scooter.
The incident happened on Great Yarmouth seafront outside the Brilliant Fish Shop just before 10am on Tuesday.
A spokesman for the ambulance service said: 'We attended a patient believed to be a woman in her 60s who had a fall and suffered a minor head injury.'
Gorleston Coastguard also attended after they were paged by the Humber control room to assist the ambulance service with a casualty on Yarmouth Beach.
The casualty had fallen off the prom while travelling on a mobility scooter.
The RNLI lifeguard and Great Yarmouth borough council employees were also at the scene.
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