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#PalosVerdesEstates Working w/ @PVEPD & other partnering agencies, vehicle has been safely removed from roof. pic.twitter.com/Xmtk3FJsLD

— LACounty Fire PIO (@LACoFDPIO) February 4, 2016

PALOS VERDES ESTATES, Calif. — It’s hard to know what was more amazing: an out-of-control car ending up on the roof of a Southern California house, or the driver somehow escaping serious injury despite the wild ride.

Palos Verdes Estates police Capt. Mark Velez says a driver with a medical problem lost control of his car on a residential street Wednesday.

Velez tells the Daily Breeze newspaper that the man hit two parked cars, rolled up the driveway of a house, ricocheted off another car and somehow went skyward, ending up atop the detached garage of a neighboring house.

Firefighters pulled the man from the car and took him to a hospital, but he wasn’t seriously hurt. No one else was injured.

Police got a crane to pull the car off the roof.

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