Curious onlookers watch as efforts are made to get the car out of the precipice. - George Henry

A Manchester teacher narrowly escaped death on Saturday when his Volvo motor car plunged over a precipice in Clarendon.

Dudley Powell, sports director at Knox Community College in Spaldings, was driving along the Spaldings to Frankfield main road at about 4 a.m. when he swerved to avoid a motorist who refused to dim his lights.

Powell said upon swerving, his car plunged some 150 metres off the main road over a precipice, and almost into a river.

Luckily for the teacher, he was not injured but bad shaken.

The motor car had various sections damaged, including the hood and sections of the engine; and both airbags in the vehicle were triggered from the impacts with a number of trees and rocks.

Powell said he managed to make his way out of the damaged car and up to the main road. "I don't even know how I reached to the road. I have not received any injuries. Mi good man, mi good, mi all right," said Powell, thanking God for sparing his life.

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Several persons were overheard saying the teacher should indeed give God thanks, because if the car had moved a few more feet down the hill it would have ended up in the river.

"Da man yah need to go to church tomorrow and pray to God, because only a miracle why him escape injuries, and even death," said a man.

It took it more than three hours to get the car from out of the ditch.