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Tesla driver is charged with intentionally plunging his family off a California cliff

Two adults and two children inside the vehicle survived the fall of 250-300 feet and the driver was arrested on charges of attempted murder and child abuse, the California Highway Patrol said.
A Tesla with four people inside crashed on the rocks over the cliffside off California's Highway 1 south of San Francisco on Monday. The driver has been arrested with intentionally driving the car off the cliff in an attempt to kill his family.

A Tesla driver has been arrested and charged with intentionally driving off a cliff in Northern California in an attempt to kill his family, law enforcement officials said.

At about 10:50 a.m. local time Monday, officials received a Tuesday. Inside the white Tesla, about 250 to 300 feet down a cliff next to the Pacific Ocean, were two children, a 4-year-old boy and a 7-year-old girl,and two adultsboth 41, who all survived.

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