PEOPLE have been spotted dicing with death by dangling over the edge of a crumbling cliff – to take selfies.

Tourists were caught on camera playing on top of the dangerous chalk cliff edge 200ft above jagged rocks at Seaford Head.

Despite giant cracks, they were standing on the edge of the cliff and police were called to issue warnings.

Amateur photographer Wayne Spring, 51, from Seaford, took this series of alarming pictures on Sunday.

Wayne said: “If any of them had lost their footing, they would have been gone.

“You’re not surviving that drop – the jagged rocks at the bottom make sure of that.

“I’ve seen that cliff crumble before and I have seen way too many people standing at the edge.

“They do it to take selfies and pictures – but they are gambling with their lives.

“On Sunday was one of the closest to a serious accident that I have ever witnessed.

“The police were involved in a later incident and they warned the people concerned and moved them on.

“Hopefully they’ll learn.”

One of the heart-stopping images Wayne took was of a young woman with her legs dangling off the edge of the cliff while an older man took pictures.

For years there have been calls to install security fences at the top of the cliff to prevent people falling off the sheer drop.

Wayne added: “If you fence it off you might spoil the area but you can’t rely on people to use their common sense any more.

“I don’t want the natural environment to be spoilt by a few idiots but if a fence stops them then so be it.

“I think they’re uninformed.

“If you are not from the area you will not know about the dangers but people just need to use their common sense.”

But the South Downs National Park Authority which maintains the Seven Sisters cliffs in Newhaven, has said that fences are impractical because of erosion.

Last June, a woman, who was in her twenties, fell from the cliffs in the Seven Sisters Country Park.

Sussex Police said her death was not being treated as suspicious.