so I was working for DOC doing fish surveys in the wanganui national park. On our way out and I pulled over to let an oncoming car past. I think I was a little close to the edge and the edge gave way. We rolled 200ft into a gorge-y stream. Amazingly we both only got soft-tissue injuries and concussion!

No glasses so not writing much now, but the pics are amazing!

I came out of here somehow. I remember rolling and being out of the car, but I don't remember being trapped, apart from lying in water.

believe it or not, but the flash actually washed out the bruising somewhat!

And we made the paper, I didn't really realise how lucky we were. http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/6588519/Two-survive-100m-plummet-off-cliff

To be honest I am not the sort that freaks out after something happens, I freak before. So I thought the whole thing was pretty funny

wow are you ok, good to hear you werent hurt to seriously, the dangers of fish keeping

OMG, glad to hear your ok Stella.

Pretty freaky really, thank goodness nobody was seriously hurt.

Hope you recover soon

bloody hell :facepalm: ..you where very lucky. .did you buy a lotto ticket..by the look of it it could of benig a lot worst..

at lest you come out alive..

That is definitely not the best way to get a closer look at a stream...

Glad you managed to walk away from it.

Is that a Hilux?

Good to see you came out of that ok.

Wow.

Glad to see you're (somewhat) ok after that!

Amazing.

Wow, sorry to see you banged-up, I hope you're not too sore

Looks like a lucky escape

At least it was just a rental!

only a few minor dents nothing the panel beaters cant fix :lol:

it took them 3 hours to get you out!

Good to see you were not seriously hurt Stella. Did you not manage to catch a few fish while you were down there? You had 3 hours after all! :gigl:

Not nice Stella.

I know that road quite well and some parts or quite steep. Who was the other person? Was it a DOC worker that I know?

I'm guessing that's Ruatiti Road. Growing up in Raetihi we used to drive that road to the domain all the time to go swimming in summer and I used to always look down at the drop. Gives me shivers thinking about it now.

Glad to hear you're ok! Those are some impressive photos!

Wow, that is quite amazing.

I dont think the Mrs will let you take me out spotlighting again after she see this.

Glad to see the you both got out OK-ish from that.

glad to see you are alright

your work with native fauna may have been rewarded by the Mauri of that water

On our way out and I pulled over to let an oncoming car past.

Ouch, courtesy hurts

How does it feel today? I hope you and your fellow rollee get well soon, the wildlife of NZ need you.

thanks guys! am really achey today, sleepy. wish i had my glasses!

slowly getting an appreciation of how lucky we were.

when trapped i asked my fried what we were doing in the area. she said spotlighting for fish (or similar), i think i replied 'cooool!'

I think there are easier ways to get published!

Quite miraculous that you survived. Rental cars tend to turn over their stock regularly so you must have got a late model with more safety features like side intrusion bars, and side air bags?

.. Rental cars tend to turn over their stock regularly ....

turn over.... geddit? 8)

i think the rental ute had less than 1000 kilometres on it!! and they got the canopy specially for us....

poor ute :digH:

I just had another look at how caved in the roof is - pretty amazing you walked (crawled) away!

Did you get your gumboot back?

wow, you do a brilliant job of everything!

it's great your not worse off in the injury stakes.

Can't say you weren't warned to not cross the streams...

YIKES! haven't been in the fishroom for ages but saw the article in Stuffs... glad those quick-thinking guys were there & you are relatively OK. Best wishes for a quick recovery!

Wow... that is a big tumble, and one messed up vehicle... glad you got out of it!