A man is lucky to be alive after his car crashed off a downtown Seattle overpass and fell some 50 feet to the ground below.

The driver was going west down the steep hill of Seneca Street when he reportedly lost his brakes monday morning. The car careened down the hill, and then crashed through the barrier just north of the Seneca Street offramp from the Alaskan Way Viaduct.

The car bounced off the pillars before coming to a rest upside down in a dumpster below.

However, the way the car tumbled, the driver's area was relatively unscathed and the driver was able to walk away from the crash...once he managed to crawl out of his car.

"If the dumpster wasn't there, he would have hit hard concrete," said Ann Fukuyama, the security manager for nearby Harbor Steps. "Our dock is usually very busy and it was a miracle that no one was around."