Two adults and two kids survive horror 250ft drop after Tesla plunges off road

Four people, including two kids, in a Tesla sedan fell off a 250ft tall cliff in California but astonishingly survived the lethal drop.

14:12, Mon, Jan 3, 2022 | UPDATED: 14:12, Tue, Jan 3, 2023

Four people, with two children, survived after their car took a 250ft plunge off a cliff

Four people, with two children, survived after their car took a 250ft plunge off a cliff (Image: GETTY)

Four people, including two children, miraculously survived after their car took a 250ft plunge off a cliff. The group were rescued from their Tesla sedan after it fell four-fifths the height of the Statue of Liberty.

A girl, 4, and boy, 9, as well as two adults survived the crash.

Crews pulled the children out of the back window and brought them up the cliff by hand in a rescue basket using a rope system.

Brian Pottenger from California's Coastside Fire Protection District (CFPD) said the car appeared to have flipped a few times before landing on its wheels.

It was found wedged against the cliff just feet from the nearby shoreline.

A 4-year-old girl, a 9-year-old boy and two adults survived the crash

A 4-year-old girl, a 9-year-old boy and two adults survived the crash (Image: GETTY)

The car appeared to have flipped a few times before landing on its wheels

The car appeared to have flipped a few times before landing on its wheels (Image: GETTY)

Crews pulled the children out of the back window and brought them up the cliff by hand in a rescue basket using a rope system.

They were rushed to the hospital by ambulance, with what was described by emergency services as "musculoskeletal injuries".

The adults, who had more serious injuries, were hoisted up the cliff by a helicopter and flown to the hospital.

Officials did not say if the four occupants of the car were members of the same family.

The car crashed off a cliff along the Pacific Coast Highway, near Devil's Slide

The car crashed off a cliff along the Pacific Coast Highway, near Devil's Slide (Image: GETTY)

Mr Pottenger noted the Tesla had crashed off a cliff along the Pacific Coast Highway, near an area known as Devil's Slide on Monday.

An investigation has been launched into why the Tesla fell off of the cliff.

Devil’s Slide is a steep, rocky and winding coastal area around 15 miles (24 kilometres) south of San Francisco.

The cliff has been the site of a number of fatalities over the past five decades.

In a bid to make the area safer, a tunnel was built to bypass the most dangerous part of the road but, since then, at least nine people have died in the area, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

It comes after San Francisco had its second-highest daily rainfall total on record fell on New Year’s Eve, with 5.46in recorded.

This is more than 25 percent of the annual average rainfall, and only 0.08in short of the all-time record set in November 1994.