A MAN had a lucky escape after his four-by-four fell 15 feet down an embankment and into a ditch.

Emergency services were called at 6.30pm last night to the A40 between Ross-on-Wye and Monmouth at Pencraig.

The 26-year-old male driver escaped the vehicle himself and complained of pain in his collar bone to ambulance staff on their arrival.

He was taken to Hereford County Hospital as a precaution.