Posted on 05/22/2007 8:47:46 PM PDT by BenLurkin
FALLBROOK, Calif. (AP) A 65-year-old golfer died Tuesday after his golf cart plunged 75 feet off a cliff and crashed into a road below, authorities said.
Edwin Payne teed off with three friends on the second hole of the Pala Mesa Resort Golf Course in northern San Diego County at around 10 a.m. and then got into his cart.
The vehicle veered off the concrete pathway, traveled down a 25-foot embankment and went over the edge of the cliff, said California Highway Patrol spokesman Tom Kerns said.
Payne, a recently retired real estate agent from Irvine, was ejected shortly before the cart hit the road beneath the cliff and died on impact, Kerns said.
No one else was involved in the crash.
Investigators will inspect the golf cart for mechanical failures, Kerns said. Drugs or alcohol were not thought to have been factors in the crash.
Look, I’ve chased balls into the water. But over a cliff? Uh uh.
May he rest in peace going out doing something he truly enjoyed.
I have known too many who just needed to wait "a few more months"...
You mean, suicide?
Why do you think suicide. They guy just retired. He was just starting his fun.
If he can get veer off of a path on a golf cart while riding on a golf cart and wind up on a road at the bottom of a 75 foot cliff, you can bet some lawyers will be investigating on his family’s behalf.
I think he’s getting at the guy having some health issue, something that might cause him to floor it or jerk the wheel around wildly, that caused it...a heart attack, a seizure, something of that nature.
I don’t play golf but I can certainly see the attraction of the sport, once mastered, carried into advanced age; and ending life in the serene surroundings of a well manicured course.
No.
I mean heart attack or massive stroke causing the cart to go out of control.
Yes, thank you for clearing that up!
When you said, “the behavior of the cart before going over the cliff suggests death was happening before the erratic behavior,” it made my train of thought veer towards suicide. One little secret about automobile accidents on the road is that many of them are suicides, and I was wondering if you were implying the same here.
That had to hurt.
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