Man flips ute down steep embankment
THE driver of a utility which rolled down an embankment near Cunningham's Gap yesterday is lucky to be alive to tell the tale today.
The accident took place around 4.30pm on the outbound side of the highway several kilometres from the top of the Gap, on the Warwick side and not in the roadworks zone.
A Queensland Ambulance spokeswoman said the 36-year-old male driver of the silver trayback ute crawled from the flipped-over wreck which came to rest 10 metres down from the road.
The driver scaled the embankment and, covered in stinging nettles but otherwise unscathed is understood to have called police on his mobile phone.
A Warwick Police Traffic Branch spokesman at the scene said the cause was under investigation and could give no further details last night.
