State police say a 55-year-old man has been rescued after his vehicle nearly tumbled off a Hudson Valley ridge while he was driving off-road.

Troopers say Ulster County emergency dispatchers received a 911 call early Sunday afternoon reporting that a man was stuck in a vehicle on an unmarked trail in the town of Ulster, just north of Kingston.

Police say a trooper called in local firefighters for assistance. Using an all-terrain vehicle, the trooper and a firefighter found the driver in his 2007 Jeep Cherokee partially hanging over a ridge about a mile from the nearest road.

Troopers say the Jeep had slid backward down an embankment before getting hung up on the edge of the ridge. The Port Ewen man was removed from the Jeep and checked out at a hospital.

(AP)