California cliffside: After inadvertently falling 400 feet over a cliffside, a man was rescued two days later by the California Highway Patrol’s Coastal Division.
The guy was rescued by the California Highway Patrol Coastal Division, and he only had mild injuries, according to the agency’s Facebook post.
The Coastal Division Air Operations Unit got a call on Tuesday asking them to search the shoreline from Post Ranch in Big Sur to Monastery Beach in Carmel for a car over the side. On Wednesday, the agency posted on Facebook, announcing the start of the search.
Authorities received a tip that a local employee had left work on Sunday night but had never returned home. Near the beach below, a crew found a car about 400 feet over the edge of the cliff. Near the footage, the guy was seen “franticly waving a makeshift flag,” according to the police.
Authorities were seen on camera lowering a rope to the guy and raising it to the roadway above.
In order to avoid running over a deer on Sunday, the guy swerved while driving home from work, “causing him to veer off the roadway and roll several hundred feet down the cliff’s edge,” according to investigators.
He said that as his automobile went down the slope, he was thrown out via the sunroof.
Authorities said that after being lost for two days, the guy “appeared to be stable and suffered moderate injuries.”
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