Close call as car ends up on rocks at Rousse

A POTENTIALLY serious accident was avoided at the weekend after a car drove across a pedestrian path at Rousse and landed on the beach.

The female driver also escaped significant injury, but had to be cut free from her car in a coordinated rescue operation involving all the emergency services.

It is not known how the accident happened, but the car shot over boulders protecting the coastal path from vehicles and ploughed through vegetation before dropping onto the beach and heading towards the sea.

It was brought to a halt by an outcrop of granite, damaging the front of the car.

After The Fire and Rescue Service cut the roof of the vehicle off to get at the driver, she was placed onto a spinal board and taken to the PEH by the Ambulance and Rescue Service.