Tesla Plunges Over Cliff at Devils Slide, 4 in Critical Condition - NBC Bay Area

A Tesla with 4 occupants plunged implicit a cliff Monday connected Highway 1 astatine Devils Slide successful San Mateo County, according to the California Highway Patrol and Cal Fire.

At astir 10:50 a.m., authorities received reports of a Tesla that went disconnected the roadway and down a cliff connected southbound Highway 1 southbound of the Tom Lantos Tunnel, officials said.

Two adults and 2 juveniles were wrong the conveyance erstwhile it went plunged down a cliff astatine a region estimated to beryllium 250 feet, a Cal Fire authoritative said.

All 4 victims were successful captious condition, according to Cal Fire.

The 2 juveniles were extricated by chopper astatine astir 12:20 p.m., and rescuers were inactive successful the process of extricating the 2 adults, the CHP said.

Witness Robin Johnson spoke to NBC Bay Area Monday astir the incident.

"As I’m driving by, I’m like, ‘Wow, he's driving highly accelerated to instrumentality that exit. You're not adjacent expected to beryllium going up that way,” she said. "And I tin spot successful my rear-view reflector this car that conscionable spell implicit the borderline and consecutive down."

Johnson added she past called 911.

"At that point, we had our rescuers marque contact. We recovered 2 adults and 2 juveniles successful the vehicle, each alive,” she said.

It was not instantly wide what caused the conveyance to spell disconnected the roadway.