<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A car has plunged almost 40 metres off a cliff at a popular sunset-watching spot in Adelaide's south, crashing onto the rocky beach below.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The vehicle owner's son, Marcus Mitchell, told 9News he believes a faulty electronic handbrake was to blame for the Chery Tiggo rolling away from her parents' driveway with nobody inside.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"The car's battery was flat, which I had jump-started," Marcus said. </span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/jeffrey-epstein-ghislaine-maxwell-united-states-testify/54c81e8b-df99-4564-a9af-e69a13a0b487" target="_blank"><strong><span>Epstein's accomplice offers to reveal all - but there's a catch</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I believed I'd put the brake on and gone inside."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The car passed through a fence before falling off the cliff, narrowly missing a group of people watching the sunset from the clifftop on The Esplanade in Hallett Cove. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Sometimes people are on the rocks, they walk there. Thank God there was nobody there," the car's owner Lotte Mitchell said.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/car-plunges-almost-40-metres-onto-adelaide-beach/9c8a6714-42f4-44fd-a2ab-0910303cfcab" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The vehicle was purchased in December, but Marcus says it's given them technical trouble ever since.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"It's possible that there was a failure in the power. Basically, when the power fails, you can open up the doors of the vehicle," he said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Motoring experts have told 9News that vehicles typically have redundancies to ensure the parking brakes remain engaged, even if a battery goes flat.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>It was too dark and too difficult last night to retrieve the vehicle, and it's still not clear exactly how it will be removed from the rocks.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><em><span>This article was produced with the assistance of </span></em><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/technology/9express/16480c33-636a-461f-9c4f-d0e2522c722a"><em><span>9ExPress</span></em></a><em><span>.</span></em></div></div>