Woman seriously hurt in balcony fall

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.  

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