York's River Ouse is popular with visitors, either for boat trips on it, or to walk beside it, eat at one of the restaurants or drink at one of the bars. Many thousands of people enjoy their time around the river, but occasionally something goes wrong.
On Friday afternoon a young woman fell from Lendal Bridge into the River Ouse, and the rescue services were quickly out in force in an attempt to find and rescue her.
Here at Kings Staith you can see an inflatable rescue boat and a fire and rescue service vehicle (with a river safety poster on it's side). Conditions for a rescue were rather difficult, with the river high (as you can see from the water lapping onto Kings Staith), and fast flowing, and the search for the young woman was not successful.
The search continued through yesterday and today, with police divers searching the river and other offices scouring the river bank, but so far still without success.
Oh that is very very sad. Such a powerful river when in flood and fast flowing even when it isn't. Kindest thoughts with the young woman's friends and family.
Thank you for all your comments on this very sad photo. The search for the young woman continues, but without any results so far. As to how she came to fall from Lendal Bridge, no information has been released, but the fact that the bridge was closed for over three hours suggests there might be suspicion of illegal activity.
I'm not sure if there really is an increase in river incidents, or if the incidents that occur receive more publicity than they used to, but they are certainly more in the public eye. Another person was rescued from the river just two days after the incident recorded in this photo. Fortunately, the vast majority of incidents end without injury or death.
Good news is that rescue was there quickly
Thank you for all your comments on this very sad photo. The search for the young woman continues, but without any results so far. As to how she came to fall from Lendal Bridge, no information has been released, but the fact that the bridge was closed for over three hours suggests there might be suspicion of illegal activity.
I'm not sure if there really is an increase in river incidents, or if the incidents that occur receive more publicity than they used to, but they are certainly more in the public eye. Another person was rescued from the river just two days after the incident recorded in this photo. Fortunately, the vast majority of incidents end without injury or death.
Ian
It is indeed sad. The media are very quiet this afternoon about the event.
Ian