A motorist was lifted out of a ditch on a stretcher strapped to the cage of a fire engine ladder after plunging 30 metres down a bank.
The man was lifted on to the roadside and taken to the Royal Sussex County Hospital in Brighton.
His vehicle had been involved in a collision on the eastbound A27, near the Kingston roundabout, Lewes, at 6.30pm yesterday.
The car careered off the road, plunged 30 metres down the bank and into a ditch, where it came to rest upside down.
An ambulance went to the scene, met by fire crews from Lewes and Preston Circus.
Crews cut the motorist from the vehicle and then a ladder with a cage on the end was lowered down the bank.
The injured man was strapped to the cage on a spinal board.
The victim was not named by Sussex Police, who operate data protection guidelines.
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