CAY HILL--A woman's Suzuki Alto plunged nearly thirty feet down from Cay Hill Tuesday with her and her husband inside.
The woman lost control of the car on Sarsapilla Road while turning around to descend the hillside, sending the car plummeting down the hill onto another road. It happened on a road adjacent to Alexi Arnell (Cake House) Road about 6:00pm. A Nissan X-Trail SUV parked on the lower road stopped the falling car's possibly-deadly descent as it and its two occupants slid toward a house below.
The woman suffered only mild bruises to her knee and some scratches. Her husband, who was in the front passenger seat, escaped unhurt.
"It could've been worse," said the optimistic-but-shaken women as she watched policemen and reporters assess the scene.
The car landed on its right side. That entire side was scratched and crumpled, and the car was pinned between the X-Trail and a wall apparently built to ease erosion and deflect rushing water. The Alto's windshield was smashed. Its roof and trunk also were damaged.
Car experts called the Alto a total loss.
The crash damaged the X-Trail's left side, scraping off the driver's door handle and leaving it inaccessible from the left. Damage to the SUV was mostly aesthetic.
Hungry's towed the car down the hillside and onto A.J.C. Brouwer Road to its Sucker Garden impound lot.