Passers-by spotted the car with one door open and the engine still running at a near-vertical angle yesterday morning.

Pictured: Jonathan Renouf was in the area at the time.

Emergency Services were called to help.

Police closed the road leading to Corbiere, Mont du Grouet, while paramedics tended to the casualty and the silver Volkswagen was recovered.

The road was reopened at 12:26.

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Pictured: Efforts to recover the car.

Officers told Express yesterday afternoon that a 26-year-old man had been taken to hospital after the incident “as a precaution”.

They said it was unclear how the vehicle cleared the barrier, and that investigations into exactly what happened remained ongoing.

Pictured top: The car was left in a perilous position. (All photographs courtesy of Jonathan Renouf)