Sent flying off the Lalbaug flyover, a 24-year-old landed on the road below a nearly 30-foot drop and may live to tell the tale, thanks to a tree. Around 5.30 am yesterday, 24-year-old Devendra Palampuri, who works at a call centre, was returning home to Andheri with his friends after a late-night outing to Marine Drive.

Palampuri fell through the branches of this tree, which slowed his fall and ensured that he hit the road with much less force. Pic/Datta Kumbhar