A man has escaped with just a broken shoulder after a car plunged 80m down a cliff on a coastal North Island road with three people inside. A caller told police the car had gone 80 metres down the cliff in Rauparaha St in Marokopa. A local told the Herald she was stunned anyone survived the crash, with the car hidden by thick bush at the bottom of a steep gully. "You can't see the car from the road because it's gone into the gully and is hidden by trees." The worst injured person, a young man, suffered a broken shoulder in the crash.

Source: Otago Daily Times December 31, 2017 00:33 UTC