A man escaped a dangerous vehicle crash with his life in recent days, after his vehicle plunged off the side of Colorado’s ‘Million Dollar Highway.’

According to Ouray Mountain Rescue Team, the crash happened on October 9 at about 12:20 p.m. when a man’s pick-up truck traveled off the road in the area of US Highway 550’s mile markers 88 and 89. The scene of the crash is located between Ouray and Silverton along a stretch of the road where a large drop-off is present. The reason the vehicle left the road was not noted in a press release on the matter.

As seen in images published by the rescue group, it appears as if the pick-up truck landed on its roof, with the group describing the fall as a 300-foot plummet into the Uncompahgre River Gorge. Somehow, the driver sustained only minor injuries. He was the lone occupant of the vehicle at the time of the crash.

After first responders arrived at the scene, the rescuers used a technical rope rescue to bring the driver to safety.

In recent weeks, three people have died in crashes on the same stretch of road where this accident occurred. Deaths include that of a motorcyclist who crashed on August 23, as well as two people who died in a crash on August 5. In the August 5 crash, a juvenile passenger survived.