Ananova:

A Croatian man escaped almost unhurt after crashing 700ft down the side of a canyon in his car and landing in a tree.

Cedo Jerbic was left with only a few bruised ribs after losing control of his Skoda Octavia on the Velebit mountain, driving off the road into a canyon.

His car hit the rock wall of the deep gully twice before getting caught in the branches of a tree on the canyon floor 700ft below.

Jerbic used his mobile phone to call rescue services who pulled him out of the car. Doctors who examined him said that apart from bruising to his chest he was unhurt.

Jerbic told them that he had been wearing his seatbelt and during the fall the car's airbags had inflated, protecting him from serious injury.