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Body Discovered In Tesla Wreckage At Base Of Rural Santa Clara County Cliff

SUNOL (CBS SF) -- California Highway Patrol investigators were trying to unravel a mystery early Wednesday after a man's body was discovered in the wreckage of a car that apparently went off a cliff in rural Santa Clara County.

CHP Officer Ross Lee said the body was discovered at about 2 p.m. Tuesday in a rugged around of the county near Mines Road at Turner
Gulch Road.

For some reason, the man's Tesla careened off the cliff, but all else remains a mystery.

Lee said investigators weren't sure how long the man and Tesla had been there. It might have been a day, he said.

Mines Road is a mountainous road with several twists and turns.

Investigators have not released the man's name, age or hometown or how long he may have been missing.

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