Car Plunges 30 Feet Down Parkway Embankment Thursday Night

CHAPPAQUA, NY — Emergency responders used ropes Thursday night to descend to a car that crashed through a guardrail on the Saw Mill Parkway, hit a tree and plunged 30 feet down an embankment, Chappaqua fire officials reported.

The call came in as a report of a tree down on the parkway, Chappaqua fire officials said. Police who responded found extensive damage to the nearby guardrail, so searched and found a car at the bottom of the embankment about 30 feet from the Metro-North Railroad tracks.

Officers and bystanders removed the driver and started medical treatment, fire officials said. Firefighters used thermal imaging technology to make sure no one had been thrown from the car, and then firefighters and police descended on ropes to check for gas spills and other fire hazards.

Once Chappaqua Volunteer Ambulance Corps and Westchester EMS Paramedics transported the driver to the hospital, firefighters cut a section of guardrail out to help Marks Towing pull the car up and remove it, fire officials said.