A man was severely injured after a rock fell off from the cliffs above and went through the roof of his vehicle on the Going-to-the-Sun Road near Rimrocks Saturday in Glacier National Park.

According to the Park Service, the incident happened about 1:40 p.m. The road was closed for about two hours as rangers and the Park’s Advanced Life-Support and Emergency Rescue Team attended to the man. The road reopened just before 4 p.m. 

There were multiple reports of the incident on social media, including video of the ALERT helicopter landing on the Sun Road in a single lane near the accident to pick the man up and transport him to Logan Health hospital in Kalispell.

His name was not released by park officials.

Rockfall off the cliffs above the Sun Road is not uncommon, though when the road was reconstructed several years ago, crews put in massive bolts in some areas to further stabilize the cliff faces above the road. 

Rimrocks is a steep, rocky cliff just below Logan Pass. 

In 2019 a 14-year-old Utah girl was killed and her family members were injured after rocks fell off the road near the east side tunnel.

On Sept. 10, 1986, Hungry Horse News editor Brian Kennedy and his wife, Carol, were injured when a rock fell on the trunk of their car. They were injured by shattered glass.

In June of 1962, a huge rock fell on a Volkswagen killing a woman passenger in the back seat, but leaving her husband and daughter in the front of the car alive.

On June 23, 1996, Tsuyochi Kamochi, 30, was killed when a rock struck his vehicle. His wife, a passenger, was not severely injured.

Separately, the Many Glacier Road was closed on Sunday afternoon after a van went into the ditch and had to be extricated.

This story was updated on July 14.