FOUR people were airlifted by helicopter to safety after a car careered off a North Yorkshire road and plummeted 160ft (50 metres) into trees.
The accident happened on the A170 at Sutton Bank between Helmsley and Thirsk, last night just after 6pm.
The car, described by police as a green and gold four-wheel drive Mitsubishi Shogun, was travelling west when it went off the road at a hairpin bend.
Two occupants of the car, a 40-year-old man with neck injuries and a woman in her late-teens with pelvic injuries, were flown to James Cook Hospital in Middlesbrough.
The two other people, who paramedics said had less serious injuries, were air-lifted from the car to the roadside and taken by ambulance to the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton.
They were a 13-year-old girl suffering knee and pelvic injuries and a 40-year-old woman suffering a sternum injury and shoulder and neck pains.
An ambulance spokesperson said none of the injuries were thought to be life-threatening. The road was closed for five hours.
Updated: 12:09 Saturday, June 25, 2005
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