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A woman has been airlifted to hospital after accidentally cycling off a cliff.
The cyclist is understood to have fallen over the precipice near in the North Foreland Hill area of Broadstairs, near Joss Bay this afternoon sparking a major emergency response.
RNLI Ramsgate said in a post on Facebook that its inshore lifeboat was launched just after 1.30pm, "to a woman who accidentally went over the cliff at Joss Bay on her push bike".
They joined road ambulance crews, police, lifeguards and the Coastguard at the scene, and an air ambulance was also called.
"Air ambulance arrived and landed on the beach near to the incident and once the doctor had treated the casualty they took her aboard the helicopter for extraction to hospital," the RNLI spokesman continued.
The ambulance service says the woman, whose age is not known, is now being treated at a London hospital.
They said: "I can confirm we were called an incident in the North Foreland Hill area of Broadstairs at approximately 1.25pm today in which one person was injured.
"Ambulance crews including our Hazardous Area Response Team attended and were joined at the scene by the air ambulance service.
"The person was treated at the scene and has been airlifted to Kings College Hospital."
