The man and his vehicle were found approximately 400 feet from the cliff.
California Highway Patrol Coastal Division said Wednesday that its team rescued a man who accidentally fell off a cliff and was stranded for two days.
Officials said the Coast Bureau Air Operations Unit was asked to send a search team for a possible vehicle outside the coastline between Big Sur and Carmel after an employee at a local facility did not return home Tuesday night. It was done. Said.
Two units searched for the man. The CHP Coastal Station said in a Facebook post that the vehicles were spotted, one of them about 400 feet below a cliff, not far from an isolated beach. Crews witnessed a man next to the car “waving a makeshift flag.”
Other units arrived and rescued the man. The man was taken to Natividad Medical Center in Salinas for treatment, the Coast Guard said. Officials said that despite spending two days on the cliff, the man was “in stable condition with moderate injuries.”
Authorities said the man said he was driving home late Sunday night when he swerved to avoid a deer, causing him to “veer off the road and tumble hundreds of feet off a cliff.” The man told first responders that he was thrown through the sunroof when the car slid down the side of a hill, police said.
There were no beach access or trails in the area where the incident occurred. Authorities also said the man's car was not visible from the road.
ABC News' Marilyn Heck contributed to this report.