Somebody up there was watching!
From The New York Post:
Brooklyn man and five others miraculously survived a terrifying plunge when their all-terrain vehicle plummeted over a Massachusetts cliff in total darkness -- sending some of them tumbling as far as 700 feet down into a ravine.
"I'm glad to be alive," said Kurt Wolfard, 29, of Crown Heights, who had been visiting friends and family when they decided to take a ride at about 1:30 a.m. Sunday.
"The trail was rough, of course, because we were going through the forest," he recalled. "Once we got to the crest of the hill, I don't think the driver realized how far we were over the cliff -- and we went off."
Rescuers said the five-wheel vehicle fell 50 to 75 feet down a sheer cliff face, then tumbled the rest of the way down a steep slope covered in jagged rocks.
The five men and one woman toppled down the mountain with their belongings, trying to grasp at the cliff to break their fall.
"I was underneath the vehicle. I felt it on top of me," Wolfard said. "I grabbed on to dirt and held on. The thing kept going, and everyone was flying everywhere."
He fell just 30 feet but discovered when he landed that he was bleeding.
"I felt my face and thought it was water or sweat," he said, "It was blood -- gushing out of my head."
He made his way through the pitch-black woods to a friend's house.
"I heard howls and noises like coyotes," he said. "I got really scared."
At the house, he was greeted by rescuers.
"When the police told me that it was a 720-foot drop with gravel slopes, jagged rocks and land so steep that trees don't grow [on it], I couldn't believe I even survived," Wolfard said.
All members of the group were rescued within four hours, authorities said. Four were hospitalized, three in serious condition. Wolfard and another man were treated and released.
"I'm very happy to be here," said Wolfard, a married mechanic. "I have a 3-year-old daughter to take care of."
Via New York Post
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