GLASGOW, Scotland, July 14 (UPI) -- Scottish officials are investigating the cause of a cable car accident that injured five people, including a 3-year-old girl, at a Highlands ski resort.
Thursday's accident occurred when a gondola with two families collided with another gondola and plunged 60 feet to the ground, the Glasgow Herald reports.
Police say the gondola fell from a continuous cable system that runs from a car park to the ski slopes of Aonach Mor.
"It was a horrifying sight. I saw one person being thrown out of the gondola as it fell," Claire Mason, who witnessed the accident, told the the Telegraph. "I could hear some screams from the young girl, which was pretty distressing."
Helicopters were used to get rescue teams and medical staff to the crash site.
The lift system was shut down, stranding several dozen people in gondolas for more than three hours.
Some 50 people waiting in the restaurant at the top of the mountain refused to travel on the lift system, so RAF helicopters were brought in to get them down, the Telegraph said.
