A man was rescued two days after his car accidentally drove off a cliff in California.
On Wednesday, the California Highway Patrol confirmed it had sent a team to search the coast from Post Ranch in Big Sur to Monastery Beach in Carmel on Tuesday morning around 8:30 a.m. local time after the man left work Sunday at around 11:00 p.m. 30 and failed to reach home.
The rescued man and his vehicle were approximately 400 feet down the cliff before a Big Sur fire chief “roped down to the victim and began assessing his injuries,” CHP Coastal Division Air Operations confirmed in a Facebook post with video footage. save.
It is added that he was “frantically waving an improvised flag”.
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The rescued man told authorities he “swerved to miss a deer” on the road while driving home from Post Ranch in Big Sur on Sunday, causing him to “veer off the roadway” and roll “several hundred feet down the edge of a cliff.” He added that he threw himself out of the sunroof as the car rolled down the cliff.
“The Coastal Division’s Air Operations Unit received a call from a Pacific Grove police dispatcher requesting an H-70 fly over the coast from Post Ranch in Big Sur to Monastery Beach in Carmel to search for a possible vehicle over the side,” the statement said.
Man rescued two days after falling off cliff in California.
CHP – Coastal Division Air Operations/Facebook
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“The CHP aircraft (A-71) was already in Monterey County on a separate call and responded to the area to search the bluffs below Hwy 1. A-71 arrived approximately 20 minutes after the request and located the vehicle approximately 400 feet over the side near the beach below,” he continued.
The release added, “The H-70 responded from Paso Robles and arrived overhead approximately 40 minutes later,” confirming that “there was no beach access or trails at the crash site, and no vehicle was visible from the roadway.”
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Man rescued two days after falling off cliff in California.
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The CHP aircraft “lifted the victim and the Big Sur Fire Department commander from the scene” before flying the driver to Natividad Medical Center in Salinas for further treatment and care.
“The A-71 was instrumental in finding the crash site and reporting the location of the H-70 for rescue. Although the victim was over the side for two days, he appeared to be stable and suffered moderate injuries,” the statement said. the human condition.
The California Highway Patrol did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for additional information.
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