Holidaymakers hurt as car topples off cliff
14 February 2008A pair of tourists had to rely on their travel insurance after sustaining injuries when their car fell 75 feet off a cliff edge onto rocks.
The couple's Renault Clio was resting at the top of a cliff at Pendennis Point, a beauty spot in Falmouth, Cornwall, when it rolled off the edge and landed upside down on the rocks below, the Daily Mail reports.
Emergency services described it as "a mystery" how the car came off the road on the cliff top.
Firefighters and coastguard rescue teams attended the scene and cut the people from the wreckage of the car, allowing a helicopter to airlift them to the Royal Cornwall Hospital.
A local police spokesman said that both of the tourists suffered serious injuries and were in a critical condition.
An eyewitness said: "At first we thought it was a training exercise because there were so many police, fire, ambulance and coastguard vehicles.
"Then we saw the helicopter winching somebody up on a board and realised it was real. The drop is very steep and high, I am amazed anyone could survive the fall."