A tree stopped a car from dropping hundreds of feet down a cliff off Highway 1 after crashing off the road Thursday afternoon, officials said.
Firefighters responded around 2:45 p.m. just south of Gray Whale Cove on Devil’s Slide to find a car “precariously dangling” on the side of a 200-foot cliff, the Cal Fire San Mateo-Santa Cruz Unit said.
The car was being supported only by a tree, the fire department said, and there was one person trapped inside. Fire crews stabilized the car and set up a rope system, officials said, and were able to get the person out of the car’s back window…