Trapped Motorists Rescued After Fall Down 30 Ft. Slope In Sonoma County: CHP

SONOMA COUNTY, CA -- Two people were rescued from a car that went off a highway and down an embankment Saturday morning in unincorporated Sonoma County, California Highway Patrol officials said.

CHP officers were dispatched at about 8 a.m. April 8 to a crash on state Highway 37 near state Highway 121.

The first officers to arrive were unable to see the crash, CHP officials said, but then one officer got out of a patrol vehicle, went to the shoulder and heard the sound of a car horn.

The officer couldn't see the car because trees were blocking it from view, but he found it by walking down a 30-foot, muddy embankment and crossing a creek, according to CHP officials.

Two people, whose names were not released by authorities, were found trapped inside the car. After being rescued, the driver was taken to a hospital with minor injuries.

The passenger was not hurt, according to the CHP.

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