A 41-YEAR-OLD man who fell from the clock outside York railway station remains critically ill.

The man is being treated in the Intensive Care Unit at Leeds General Infirmary, where he was taken by air ambulance after the incident earlier this week.

An LGI spokesman said today that the patient 'remains critically ill.'

Police said Queen Street and Station Road in York were both closed and paramedics and police were called to the scene after the incident.

York Press:

Alyssa McMahon, 20, a Philosophy and Sociology student at the University of York, said she had been dropped off by a bus at the station and was waiting to catch a second one to a lecture when she saw the man sat on the clock.

"When I got off the bus people were pointing to the clock and I saw a man sat on it," she said.

"The police were trying to talk him down and there were a few people gathering round.

"I was really worried and it was shocking to see.

"He must have been in a horrible situation to do that.  I was a bit shaken by it."

The British Transport Police said it was called to reports of a man falling from a clock outside the station.

A BTP spokesman said: "A man has been taken by air ambulance to hospital for treatment to injuries. Incident is not being treated as suspicious."

Chris Sellars, a taxi operator from York Station Taxis said one of the taxi drivers had seen a man climb up on to the top of the clock outside the station and she rang the police. 

"They station is closed up with police tape at the moment and they're still sorting the guy out at the front of the station. They've still working on him," she said.

"One of the drivers told me somebody had climbed up on to the clock and I rang the police. The police came out straight away to try and talk him down. 

"The next thing we know we heard the crowds outside make a noise and he had fallen.

"We are still shaken."