Four female car passengers have walked away relatively unscathed after plunging off a 100ft cliff into a rock pool below.

Their Nissan Note failed to negotiate a bend and crashed through fencing at the seafront in North Tyneside at 12.15am, ending up in a former outdoor swimming pool.

The friends amazing only suffered minor injuries.

A Northumbria Police spokesman said: "It [the car] came to a halt in a tidal salt water pool known as the Sealife Rock Pool.

"Fortunately, the tide was out."

Officers have launched an inquiry into the crash.

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