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Dayna McAlpine

East Lothian mum shares horror of Harry Styles fan landing on her after 35ft drop

A woman from East Lothian has said how she is 'lucky to be alive' after she took the brunt of the impact of a man falling from a balcony at a Harry Styles concert at Ibrox Stadium.

Ann Barr, 57, from Dunbar shared the terrifying details of her ordeal with The Sun, revealing that she had been sat directly below where 20-year-old Dylan Wood plummeted to from the balcony of the Glasgow gig.

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Dylan Wood fell from the top tier on Saturday night before being rushed to hospital and put on life support as a precaution.

Ann had been seated directly below in Row J in the stands and and bore the brunt of the impact after the young man fell.

She had risen to her feet to cheer and sing along with Styles' final encore song of the night when she was hit with what felt like “the full force of a car".

She told The Scottish Sun: “It all happened so suddenly, it’s only now it is sinking in what happened.

“I felt like I had been hit on the back with the full force of a car.

“My daughter thought somebody had thrown a glass bottle. I looked down and the boy’s feet and legs were splayed in front of me.

“You could see the force he fell from, the seats in front of us were mangled. He was staring at us with eyes glazed over and was bleeding from the head.

“My daughter checked that he was breathing and he wasn’t.”

Ann's nurse doctor - who works in ICU - was joined by another off-duty nurse before they both tried to revive the young man's who had fallen unconscious.

Ann continued: “The pair of them started to administer CPR.

“It felt like time had stopped before I heard one of them say he had started to breathe again. Then official people started to push past us.

"At this stage I didn’t want to move back because I knew I might have been injured.

“It started to get more and more crowded as they rushed to help him. When the officials arrived, my daughter and the other nurse moved back.”

“I am okay, but I realised that if we hadn’t been standing up it could have been so much worse. All I could think about was how terrifying it would have been for the boy, he fell with such force."

“It was a miracle that he was okay and it is a miracle there weren’t any more people seriously injured.

“I just don’t know how he survived it, I’m just glad he did.”

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