B.C. man lucky to be alive after several days trapped in his truck

A young man is recovering in hospital after a harrowing experience on Vancouver Island.

Duncan Moffat, 23, was recently reported missing after being out of touch from his family for over a week.

The reason for his lack of communication is that Moffat’s truck went off a cliff and the 23-year-old was pinned in the vehicle with a broken femur for several days.

His uncle, Bill Macnab, told reporters that Moffat survived on a bag of apples he’d picked at his dad’s house in Sayward.

After several days inside the vehicle, he was lucky enough to find a bottle of Gatorade as well.

The trapped man was eventually discovered by a hunter who immediately called 911, beginning a rescue that took several hours.

Jaws of Life were needed to cut away the drivers’ side of the truck and extract Moffat, who suffered the broken femur, broken ribs and a shoulder, a bruised vertebrae in his back and a lacerated spleen and liver.

While he was out of touch with family for closer to 10 days, Macnab believes his nephew’s ordeal trapped inside the truck was five days long.

Moffat’s grandfather described the hunter’s chance of discovering the wreckage as one in a million.

With files from the Canadian Press.