You can't park there! Miracle escape for driver whose car flipped off road... and landed in a tree

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 2:05 PM on 16th February 2011

A driver had a miracle escape after careening across a wet road and being launched so high that the car ended up hanging nose-first from a tree.

David Beasley was driving along Chirk Road in North Wales on his way to work as a panel cutter.

But as he approached a bend in the road his wife's green Renault Clio skidded, hit a high pavement and was thrown into the air.

'Miracle': David Beasley escaped unharmed after his wife's Renault Clio skidded off the road and ended up stuck in a tree

Amazingly, the 44-year-old walked away without a scratch after the airborne flying car became lodged in a tree.

Although the car was hanging nose-down by its wheels over a steep embankment, Mr Beasley was able to force open a door and drop to safety.

'I was just driving out of Chirk and was coming around the bend in the road when the back end broke away,' said Mr Beasley.

'I skidded and found myself heading towards the wall on the right-hand side of the road.

'I managed to correct that and the next thing I knew I was on the other side.

'I then clipped the kerb, which must have flipped me over and thrown me backwards into the tree at the side of the road.

Nose-first: The car ended up hanging by its wheels from tree branches

'I was left just hanging down looking at the ground.'

The drama unfolded at 8am on Tuesday as Mr Beasley was driving from his home in Chirk, on the border between England and Wales, to Oswestry.

Despite the spectacular accident that followed, the car sustained little damage.

'The window on my side was broken but I checked the door and found I could still open it,' he said.

'I even managed to put the handbrake on.

'I then got out through the door, dropped down and got back on to the pavement.

'I wasn't going very fast when it happened and I reckon it must have been because the road surface was a bit slippery at that point.

'What is amazing is that the airbag didn't even go off so it all must have happened quite gently.

'I've only got a few cuts and bruises but it could have been a lot worse if I hadn't ended up in the tree.

'If it hadn't been there my car would have just gone straight down the slope into the field.

'I suppose it is a miracle that I have escaped this without being seriously hurt.'

Police temporarily cordoned off the stretch of road while the car was recovered by a specialist truck.

A spokesman for North Wales Police said: 'We were called to the scene of the incident at 8.11am on Tuesday.

'There was one vehicle involved, which was upside down in a tree.

'The driver sustained only minor injuries.'

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