The family – including Mr Patel’s 41-year-old wife, seven-year-old daughter and four-year-old son – had to be pulled out of the mangle d remains of the car by cutting the vehicle.

Neighbors in Pasadena were shocked to hear that friendly, soft-spoken Dharmesh Patel was charged with attempted murder after driving the family's Tesla off the cliff on Highway 1.

Family and friends wore specially designed red T-shirts to honor the 13-year-old seventh-grader and to show her parents, Tina and Dinesh Patel, how much their daughter meant to everyone and how ...