Authorities have not said that alcohol or Cinco de Mayo partying had anything to do with it, but a car with four adults in it missed a bend in the road or something and went off a cliff near San Francisco's Ocean Beach.

The crash occurred around 2:53 a.m. on Point Lobos Avenue, across the street from the Point Lobos parking lot. As the San Francisco Fire Department reported, the car was traveling at an unknown speed and went off the road, plunging 30 to 40 feet down the cliffside. The section of cliff in question is a short distance uphill and around the bend from the former Cliff House.

All four were rescued, with two people in the car listed as stable and two in critical condition.

As NBC Bay Area reports, it was not immediately clear to first responders if drugs or alcohol figured in the crash.

Photos show the car just beside the ruins of the old Sutro Baths — and they show the car came to rest in a sand outcropping, preventing the car from plunging much further down to the ocean.

Rescue crews saved a dog from peril Tuesday, plucking him or her from the side of a San Francisco cliff.

The cliff, of course, was Fort Funston, the site of numerous such incidents in recent months. A photo posted by NBC Bay Area shows the cliff in question, a steep bluff near the area's parking lot.

According to a series of tweets from the San Francisco Fire Department, the rescue was ongoing as of 11:52 a.m. Tuesday, when a dog got "stuck on the side of a steep cliff."

By 12:29, the pup was pulled to safety. He or she was uninjured in the incident, the SFFD says.

This is but the latest in a long line of canine rescues at Fort Funston. In February of this year, another dog was pulled from the brink by the SFFD. After a February 2016 fall, another dog was saved, and in
In December of 2016, a dog and its guardian were both rescued from the cliff. Another dog/guardian team was rescued in July that same year. The moral of the story? Dogs aren't great at not falling off cliffs, and their rrescue should likely be left to the professionals.

A man and his dog were safely rescued Sunday, after the pup fell off a cliff and its master followed.

According to a tweet from the San Francisco Firefighters Union, crews were called to Fort Funston Sunday afternoon after the pair got trapped on the cliff face.

SFFD spokesperson Jonathan Baxter says the call reporting the imperiled duo came in at 1:38 p.m. Sunday, regarding an incident on the cliffs near Fort Funston Road and Skyline Boulevard.

Baxter says that dog had fallen over the edge of the cliff, and the dog's male guardian then climbed down in an effort to rescue the canine. Instead, both found themselves trapped on the rock face.

Baxter says firefighters were able to pull both victims to safety. The dog was fine, Baxter says, and the man suffered minor injuries and was treated at the scene.

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A woman and her dog are safe today, thanks to San Francisco rescue crews that spared them both from a possibly fatal fall Monday.

In a tweet posted Monday evening, the San Francisco Fire Department announced that a rescue was in progress at Fort Funston as of 6:09 p.m., as an "adult female and dog [were] down [a] cliff."

By 6:15, a "low angle rescue operation" was in progress, as the woman and canine were around 200 feet down the cliffside.

At 6:21, the SFFD says, the woman and dog were both safely returned to flat land. Neither the dog nor his companion were injured in the fall or subsequent rescue, according to the SFFD.

CBS 5's red box of alarm notes: "A cliff rescue is underway in San Francisco at a beach area located at the end of El Camino Del Mar near the Lincoln Park Golf Course." Egads, we hope they're plucked from the cliff safely.

UPDATE: Our man is being rescued and airlifted to Stanford medical center. He's got a broken ankle and suffered mild hypothermia from being outside overnight.

While taking in the (allegedly) gorgeous weather yesterday, a 20-year-old Marin hiker fell from the cliffs above Rodeo Beach in the Marin Headlands, and died. The unidentified woman, while walking with her hiking partner who was hurt during a "rescue attempt," was, according to SFGate, "hiking ahead of her partner when he heard her scream and saw rocks falling. The man hiked down the hillside to help her. It was unclear how he was injured."

Between yesterday's bizarre tree-related death at Stern Grove and this fatal hike in the Marin Headlands, nature is scaring us now more than ever before.

Update: The hiker has been identified as Phoebe Washer.