The Italian Job goes to Colorado as camper van sways on cliff edge

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The Italian Job goes to Colorado as camper van sways on cliff edge
Pictured: The Italian Job goes to Colorado as camper van sways on cliff edge | Mail Online

It must have been a long and sweaty wait inside the van for a tow truck.

But Daniel Lyons didn’t really have the option of popping out to stretch his legs.

The 34-year-old was discovered by rescuers sitting in his swaying Dodge camper van, 170ft from the ground. The van had plunged down the rock face at the Colorado National Monument in the U.S. in a scene reminiscent of the film The Italian Job.

Terrified Daniel had desperately tried to balance the weight of the van to prevent him from plunging to certain death.

But in his confusion he climbed on to the back seat - which was already hanging off the cliff.

Rescue crews who raced to the scene of the accident found Daniel cowering in the swaying vehicle.

They managed to manoeuvre him from the van and up the cliff face before he was airlifted to hospital.

Mr Lyons was treated for minor injuries.

Park superintendent Joan Anzelmo said: ‘It’s truly a miracle. Another few inches or a foot and that car would have continued on to the base of the canyon. No one survives those types of accidents.’

 

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NOW that’s a real cliff-hanger — as a van sits precariously on a boulder above a 170ft drop.

Emergency services raced to rescue the Dodge driver after he shot off a mountain road in America’s Colorado National Monument park — in an echo of the end of classic Michael Caine movie The Italian Job.

Daniel Lyons, 34, suffered minor injuries in the apparent suicide bid, after being accused of a sex attack on a girl of four.

He was arrested.

Park official Joan Anzelmo said: “Another few inches and it would have gone.”