POLICE said they did not believe there were any suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of a man found in a car at the bottom of a cliff in Matlock Bath
A member of the public spotted tyre tracks at the edge of the cliff at High Tor and called 999.
When police arrived, a black Chrysler PT Cruiser was found in a wooded area at the base of the cliff and a 65-year-old man was pronounced dead.
The man, who was from Matlock, has not yet been identified.
The tyre tracks leading off the cliff edge were discovered at 7.45am yesterday.
Police said they believed the car was driven off the cliff at High Tor.
A statement from Derby Mountain Rescue Team, which was called to recover the body, said: "The car was discovered at the foot of High Tor, a high peak overlooking the River Derwent, after a walker noticed tyre tracks leading over the edge at the top of the popular peak and alerted police.
"Police discovered the car at the bottom of the cliff in a densely wooded and difficult to access area and a 65-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene.
"The car, a black Chrysler PT Cruiser had come to rest in a precarious position on very steep ground, so the specialist services of mountain rescue were called in to recover the body from the car onto a specialist stretcher and lower the stretcher down by a rope system to a narrow path.
"The stretcher was then carried along the narrow path for around 45 minutes before reaching the road."
Police have yet to identify the deceased man and have appealed for anyone who may have seen the car or have any information about the incident to contact them on 101, quoting incident number 102 of Monday, 2nd June.
