Estacada, OR : Man thrown 75 feet down embankment after motorcycle crash on Highway 224 on Sunday, May 10, 2015

A man is expected to survive after being thrown nearly 75 feet down an embankment following a motorcycle crash.

The motorcycle rider, a 59-year-old man, was flown to the hospital in a helicopter ambulance.

The crash happened after 4 p.m. Sunday while the man was going around a corner on Highway 224 (the Clackamas Highway) near milepost 43.

“I came about a motorcycle laying up against a guard rail and people with their flashes and they said they need medical help down over the embankment,” Janet Hoefling, who helped the man who had fallen down the embankment, told KATU News.

The man’s motorcycle crashed into a railing, sending him down an almost 75-foot embankment. He was riding with two friends when he crashed. Some passing drivers joined them in climbing down the embankment to help.

“He looked remarkably well for what he went through,” Hoefling said. “He has a badly broken leg.”

They started medical aid until rescue crews arrived on scene.

“We had to be really careful everybody that came down because the rocks were falling down on and everybody down below. It was a steep enough embankment,” Hoefling said.

An emergency team arrived and helped with a high-angle rope rescue, pulling the man up the embankment on a stretcher.

Officials at the scene told our reporters he had broken his leg and lost a lot of blood. He was flown to a nearby hospital and is expected to survive.

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Man thrown 75 feet down embankment after motorcycle crash