PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) -- A person was rescued after their vehicle wound up in a ravine in Peoria Thursday night.

At 7:40 p.m. on Aug. 28, the Peoria Fire Department crews went to 1700 W. War Memorial Drive near Salem Lutheran Preschool for a vehicle accident, said Battalion Chief Larry Carter.

He said arriving crews had trouble finding the vehicle as it was in the ravine within the woods.

The vehicle was unstable and balancing on an embankment 60 feet below the roadway, Carter said. The driver was still in the vehicle and having medical issues.

He said rescue crews used cables and a rescue winch to keep the vehicle from falling further. Firefighters treated the driver and got the person out of the woods using a Stokes basket and rescue rope.

The driver was taken by ambulance to a hospit

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