A man in his 20s is lucky to be alive, after falling about 10 metres from a Gold Coast hotel balcony overnight.
He suffered head and leg injuries but remains in stable conditionParamedics were called to the Surfers Paradise backpackers' hotel just after 9pm after reports the man had fallen from a fifth-storey balcony onto a second-storey roof.
The man suffered head injuries and a fractured leg, but was transported to the Gold Coast University Hospital in a stable condition. The Queensland Ambulance Service's Paul Young said the 28-year-old was lucky to have landed on a "metal overhang roof, which cushioned his fall" from direct concrete.Mr Young said it remained unclear exactly how or why the man fell.He said rescuers had to get over a three-metre wall to get the man out because of the nature of the apartment complex."There were a lot of bystanders there. I believe it's a backpackers' hotel . QAS received a lot fo triple 0 calls.
And in 2020, a Brisbane teenager died after falling four storeys from a Surfers Paradise apartment balcony.
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