A man is lucky to be alive after his car plummeted 30 metres off a cliff near the Nowra Showgrounds while he was inside the vehicle.
The car just missed a walker on the Bens Walk trail.
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According to ambulance media, the 30-year-old male was treated for head and facial injuries.
He has now been taken to St George Hospital via an ambulance helicopter in a stable condition.
NSW Ambulance inspector Christopher Lahene described the incident as "miraculous".
"When we are called to jobs like this, where a car has accidentally gone off a cliff, it's quite confronting for our paramedics," he said.
"It's miraculous, even though the car plunged about 30 metres, that the patient was able to walk out of the scene.
"If I were him or the person out for a walk, I'd be getting a lotto ticket because surviving something like this is quite extraordinary."
Just after 7am officers responded to reports of a car off a cliff near the Nowra Showgrounds.
Four ambulance crews and an ambulance helicopter were deployed to the scene along with Police and Fire and Rescue NSW.
Zoe Cartwright
Stuart Thomson
Journalist at the South Coast Register.
Journalist at the South Coast Register.
