A car skidded on an icy Snake Pass and plunged a hundred feet down a ravine, but the driver and his father escaped practically unhurt from the wreckage.
Herbert Elson, 64, who was dragged to safety by his son Hubert, said: "We were saved by the snow in the ravine which was 18 inches deep... the car glided down.
"But as its speed increased it turned broadside and rolled over and over, before coming into contact with a boulder."
The impact smashed open the driver's door allowing Hubert, 35, just back in the UK after fighting with the Eighth Army in Italy and North Africa to climb out.
The miraculous escape, which was played out in February 1947, involved Hubert pulling his dad through the broken door and hauling him on a travel rug to the roadside.
They were luckily seen by an RAC patrol man who then returned through heavy snow the two miles Glossop to get help.
He came back with an ambulance which took the two men to Wood's Hospital and treatment for minor injuries.
Herbert, who like his son came from Dukinfield, had obviously seen enough of the Snake Pass.
He told the Chronicle: "I would not go over it again in similar conditions for a hundred pounds."
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