Ian Klopper, NSRI Kommetjie station commander, said, “On Sunday 10 July at 16h17 our NSRI Kommetjie volunteer duty crew were activated following reports of a vehicle plunged off Chapmans Peak on the Noordhoek side of Chapmans Peak Drive.
“Metro EMS, the SA Police Services, Law Enforcement, the Metro Red Cross AMS helicopter and Cape Town Traffic Services responded and after it became clear that the vehicle was lying far below the roadway on rocks and just 10 meters from the shores edge our NSRI Kommetjie volunteer duty crew launched our Discovery Rescue Runner (rescue jet-ski) and our sea rescue craft Spirit of Winelands carrying NSRI medics and medical equipment and on arrival on-scene a male was found in the vehicle and he was treated for lacerations, a fractured tibia and fibula, and immobilized and secured onto a stretcher for protection for any possible cervical spinal injuries, and treated for shock.
“The patient was in a stable but serious condition.
“The patient was airlifted up to Chapman’s Peak Drive by the Metro Red Cross AMS helicopter using a ‘short-hall’ system (where the stretcher is airlifted using a static line) and once on Chapman’s Peak Drive the patient has been loaded into a Metro EMS ambulance and transported to hospital.
“Police will investigating the cause of the incident.
“It is not known to NSRI what caused the vehicle to plunge over the edge of the mountain.”
