CORBETT, Ore. — A person was taken to the hospital after their car went over the edge of a viewpoint area in the Columbia River Gorge
According to Corbett Fire, a car drover over the curb and off of the cliff at Women's Forum State Scenic Viewpoint, an outlook area about 10 miles west of Multnomah Falls, and landed upside down against a tree.
Officials responded to the accident at around 4:18 p.m. and found the vehicle balanced precariously against a tree about 400 feet down a steep embankment. The car was only accessible via an old and unmaintained dirt road. From that road, the car was an additional 75 feet uphill.
According to information released by Corbett Fire, it took seven minutes or so to drive back to the emergency vehicles to get the patient to them due to how far down the car has tumbled.
The driver was pulled from the wreckage and transported to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries despite the extensive damage to their vehicle.
