A MAN miraculously survived after his car ploughed through a fence and plunged more than 100 feet into a quarry.

Ken Hudson, 33, from Oswaldtwistle, managed to drag himself from the wreckage in the quarry at Whinney Hill, Huncoat.

He then staggered to the brickworks, about a quarter of a mile away, to raise the alarm, despite being badly injured.

Police rigged up search lights to comb the quarry to make sure no one else had been in the car.

Mr Hudson, a long distance lorry driver, of Stanley Street, suffered fractures to his foot, multiple lacerations and head injuries.

He was taken to Blackburn Infirmary by ambulance where his condition was described as ‘fair’.

His mother Doris Hudson said: “The police knocked me up at about 4am and told me about the accident.

“It took me more than one hour to find a taxi driver who is a friend of my son.

"I spoke to Ken in the hospital, but he was still concussed and did not know where he had been or where he was going. All he said was that he had walked a long way to a factory to get help.

"His clothes were absolutely filthy. He must have dragged himself there."