Driver left car suspended over stairwell after smashing into hospital

A 70-year-old driver escaped injury on Wednesday after crashing into a medical building in San Diego after a crash at a Rady Children’s Hospital medical building left his car suspended over a stairwell.



It took firefighters about 40 minutes to pull the man out of the Toyota Camry through a passenger door on a backboard. He was taken to Sharp hospital for evaluation after the 9:45am crash, San Diego Fire-Rescue spokesman Maurice Luque said.



The crash left the sedan spanning a stairwell with its back end resting on a walkway and the front left wheel on a ledge on the front of the building. Firefighters estimated the drop to be about 20 feet.


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Luque said the driver went through the lowered gate arm. The car zoomed into the parking lot, jumped a kerb and hit the building. He added that the driver had to be travelling very fast for it to have ended up across the divide rather than going nose first into it.  The car was hoisted up and out of its precarious perch by a tow truck at about 1pm.