A woman was seriously injured when she fell from a balcony in Dunedin last night. A St John ambulance and firefighters from Lookout Point Station were called to a house in Watts Rd, Northeast Valley about 8pm yesterday. St John spokesman Ian Henderson said the woman, aged in her 40s, sustained a serious injury in the fall and was taken to Dunedin Hospital. Willowbank Station officer Brent Key said the woman had fallen off a balcony and firefighters used a stretcher to carry her to the ambulance. The woman had sustained a shoulder injury, he said.

Source: Otago Daily Times October 20, 2016 22:52 UTC