Overview
- A person died Thursday night after falling from a cliff near Gray Whale Cove, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office.
- Emergency crews closed Highway 1 for roughly two hours while responding to both the fall and the earlier Tesla crash.
- At about 2:45 p.m., Cal Fire’s San Mateo-Santa Cruz unit arrived to find a Tesla suspended over a 200-foot drop just south of Gray Whale Cove.
- Firefighters stabilized the vehicle with ropes and extricated the trapped driver through the back window.
- Authorities have opened investigations into the circumstances of the fatal fall and the cause of the earlier crash.