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A teenager has told how a tree branch saved his life after plunging 40ft off a path next to a waterfall.
Marshall Hoyle, 19, miraculously survived without breaking a single bone after tumbling beside the Thomasson Foss waterfall in Goathland, North Yorkshire. He landed on a dead branch which snapped under the impact, but cushioned his fall, reports the Mirror.
The Hull teen was rushed to hospital where he was diagnosed with a collapsed lung but doctors told him he hadn’t suffered a single broken bone in the horror accident last weekend.
Marshall and pal Lucas Hazel, 19, had been hiking, swimming and leaping from the waterfall before disaster struck.
The lucky teen said: “There’s a waterfall you can jump off in to a big rock pool. We did that, we went