Careening car ends up on roof of Southern California house

A crane removes a car that crashed off Palos Verdes Drive west and ended up on the roof of a home in Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016. Firefighters pulled the man from the damaged car and took him to a hospital, but he wasn't seriously hurt, and no one else was injured.
A crane removes a car that crashed off Palos Verdes Drive west and ended up on the roof of a home in Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2016. Firefighters pulled the man from the damaged car and took him to a hospital, but he wasn't seriously hurt, and no one else was injured.

PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif.-It's hard to know what was more amazing: An out-of-control car ending up on the roof of a Southern California house or the driver somehow escaping serious injury despite the wild ride.

Palos Verdes Estates police Capt. Mark Velez says a driver with a medical problem lost control of his car on a residential street Wednesday.

Velez tells the Daily Breeze newspaper that the man hit two parked cars, rolled up the driveway of a house, ricocheted off another car and was somehow sent skyward, ending up atop the detached garage of a neighboring house.

Firefighters pulled the man from the car and took him to a hospital, but he wasn't seriously hurt. No one else was injured.

Police got a crane to pull the car off the roof.

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