Crash victim lucky: police

Police say a 23-year-old Queenstown man was lucky to walk away from a crash early yesterday in which his car left the road, crashed through two fences, down a 50m bank and ended up 350m off the road.

Senior Constable Mike Colligan, of Alexandra, said the man managed to walk back up to the road where he was found by an Otago Daily Times delivery truck driver, who alerted police.

The man "said he thought he might have fallen asleep" about 3.30am but was wearing a seat belt, preventing more serious injury.