Injured pickup truck driver rescued after 5 days trapped at bottom of 100-foot ravine in California
A motorist whose truck tumbled about 100 feet down a Southern California bluff was rescued after being trapped at the bottom of a ravine for nearly five days, authorities said.
Rescue crews responded Saturday after receiving a report of a truck at the base of a steep hill southeast of Bakersfield in an area called Sheep’s Trail, according to the Kern County Fire Department.
When crews arrived on scene, “they found a badly damaged pickup truck and one occupant at the bottom of a 100’ cliff,” the department wrote.
A firefighter who was lowered down with a rope determined that the motorist was injured and had been trapped inside the truck since crashing last Tuesday near Stallion Springs, according to the department’s incident report.
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