Driver accused of DUI survives astonishing 600-foot plunge down California cliff

California officials connected Monday said a operator suspected of being nether the power miraculously survived aft a pickup motortruck plunged astir 600 feet disconnected a cliff successful Northern California past week.

The clang happened successful Siskiyou County on State Route 263, a scenic road carved done steep cliffs and rugged terrain known for its melodramatic drop-offs.

The pickup appeared to veer disconnected the roadway earlier tumbling down the mountainside and yet coming to remainder astatine the bottommost of the cliff, according to the California Highway Patrol (CHP).

"Remarkably, the operator survived what could person easy been a fatal crash," the bureau said.

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A achromatic pickup motortruck sits wholly destroyed astatine the basal of a rugged mountainside aft plunging astir 600 feet successful Siskiyou County, California, successful July 2026. (California Highway Patrol)

After authorities responded to the scene, the operator was recovered to beryllium allegedly impaired, CHP said.

The idiosyncratic was arrested connected suspicion of driving nether the influence.

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A presumption looking down the steep, rugged cliffs of Northern California shows the long, treacherous way a conveyance traveled during a convulsive upland clang successful July 2026. (California Highway Patrol)

Photos released by the bureau amusement the pickup motortruck mangled and astir unrecognizable aft the convulsive plunge, with debris scattered crossed the rocky mountainside.

Authorities did not instantly merchandise the driver's individuality oregon supply details astir the grade of immoderate injuries sustained successful the wreck.

Tire tracks people the borderline of State Route 263 successful Siskiyou County, California, wherever a suspected impaired operator veered disconnected a cliff successful July 2026. (California Highway Patrol)

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Following the incident, CHP urged drivers to ne'er get down the instrumentality portion impaired, informing that the consequences tin beryllium devastating.

"This clang serves arsenic a almighty reminder that impaired driving puts not lone your beingness astatine risk, but besides the lives of everyone other connected the road," CHP said. "Choosing to thrust nether the power tin person devastating consequences that are wholly preventable."