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One person was killed and three others where injured today by a construction truck accident in a a San Mateo parking lot. At about 1:15 p.m the ruck barreled down a hill into a crowed grocery store parking lot, hitting a black sport-utility vehicles broadside. The impact dragged the SUV about 75 feet into the parking lot. Eight or nine other vehicles in the parking lot were also hit.

The parking lot was left in a mess of crushed vehicles and broken glass. None of the victims, or the truck driver, has yet been officially identified.

One victim, an occupant of one of the vehicles that was hit, was declared dead at the scene. A pedestrian was also hit and injured. One of the three injured people was taken to Stanford Hospital by helicopter. The other two were taken by ambulance.

According to San Mateo Police Captain Kevin Nguyen, the container truck "apparently had some type of mechanical failure” while it was coming down 43rd Avenue, a residential street that dead-ends in a Mollie Stone’s grocery store parking lot.

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A motorist drove off a 150-foot cliff at Highway 1 at Devil's Slide today at 4:10 a.m.

A 24-year old San Francisco motorist, who's name has not been released, was driving his Mazda sedan in dense for, heading north toward San Francisco, when he missed a turn and drove over the side of the cliff.

The Car landed on its wheels after which point, he used his cell phone to call 911. The road was closed for two hours in both directions. Rescue crews with the California Highway Patrol and Cal Fire had trouble location the man because of the fog. They finally reached him 35 minutes later by rappelling off the cliff.

They pulled the man up in a protective cage and then he was taken to San Francisco General Hospital for observation. His only visible injury was a bump on the head, according to CHP Sgt. Trent Ross. "He did what he was supposed to; he wore his seat belt," said Ross who added that if the driver hadn't been wearing his seat belt during the accident, "there is no doubt it would have been fatal."