[Bahbah]

This is horribly sad. Prayers for this family.

[Peace4EarthNow]

Aww, I was SO hoping for a good ending to this one.

May they rest in peace, and I pray God will comfort & strengthen the family & friends left behind.

[Howlin]

ROCKY MOUNT, N.C. -- Authorities have recovered the bodies of a missing South Carolina couple from inside a vehicle submerged in water along Interstate 95 in Rocky Mount, the North Carolina Highway Patrol said Monday evening.

Wayne Anthony Guay, 47, and Dianne Guay, 45, of Myrtle Beach, S.C., were positively identified as the occupants inside the white Mazda with South Carolina registration, the Highway Patrol said.

The Guays were on their way to Queens, N.Y., but never arrived at their destination.

Troopers were notified at about 3:30 p.m. about the vehicle, which was found in a swampy area located between mile markers 139 and 140. Sgt. Keith Stone, with the Highway Patrol, said the vehicle apparently ran off the road into a creek.

Last week, Nash County 911 Communications had notified the Highway Patrol of a traffic collision near the location where the vehicle was recovered, but emergency personnel were never able to locate a collision at the location, the Highway Patrol said.

[Peace4EarthNow]

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[Alia]

This is such sad news.

I'm glad for their loved ones that they know one way or another. Prayers up as they go through their grief, which no doubts, will be quite intense.

[deadhead]

Prayers for Anthony and Dianne Guay.

Prayers for their loved ones.

[tapatio]

This is just so sad. Prayers for the family.

[Palladin]

How very sad. Prayers going up for their children and grandchildren.

[upchuck]

What a shame...

South Carolina Ping

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[livius]

Very sad. This happens often in Florida, because we have swampy areas and retention ponds near the highways and people often drive into them at night or in fogs. The water just closes over the car and it can take a long time to find them.

Still, I'm glad they weren't kidnapped and murdered by some nut, which was one of my first fears. An accident isn't pleasant by any means, but at least an accident is just an accident.

Prayers for them and their kids.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Awful. May they rest in peace. Prayers for their family.

[Mamzelle]

Rocky Mount? Is that on the way to Queens? Maybe I'm thinking of Rocky Knob, but I thought Rocky Mount was in Western NC.

[fortunecookie]

My prayers go out for the couple and my prayers and condolences for the grieving family.

[kcvl]

[NRA2BFree]

Oh no. Yesterday, I heard their daughter on the news and she asked people to look in the water ways along the route they would take, just in case they had been in an accident and landed in the water. That poor girl. It's just what she thought. That's so sad. Prayers sent for their loved ones. May God comfort them and give them strength in the difficult days ahead.

[Doc91678]

The big question is. Why didn't the South Carolina local and State Police act more quickly? Why did it take the NYPD to coerce the NCSP into starting a search and get the FBI involved?

[Constitution Day]

Story from our local paper's website:

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Myrtle Beach couple's bodies found in crashed car
http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/news/content/news/stories/2006/12/12/06/couplefound.html

By John Ramsey
Rocky Mount Telegram

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Road workers found a crashed car off Interstate 95 on Monday that contained the bodies of a Myrtle Beach couple traveling to New York City to visit family.

Authorities identified the two bodies inside the car as Wayne Guay, 57, and Dianne Guay, 55, who had been missing since Thursday.

N.C. Department of Transportation workers followed skid marks near the Red Oak exit on northbound I-95 near mile marker 140, then spotted the Guay's white Mazda 3 submerged in a small creek, said 1st Sgt. Keith Stone of the N.C. Highway Patrol.

The car left the road, veered down the bank and ricocheted off a tree before hitting the creek and sinking to the bottom of the 6- to 8-foot deep unnamed body of water. The license plate of the car was barely visible, he said.

"It just happened to go right into the mouth of the creek," Stone said, adding that the time of the crash has not been determined because the cold water helped preserve the bodies. "(But) I wouldn't have any reason to believe it's inconsistent with when they left."

Rocky Mount is about 225 miles from Myrtle Beach or roughly a 3 1/2-hour drive. Stone said speeding does not seem to have been a factor and that it appeared the brakes were tapped slightly before the car left the road.

Wayne Guay appears to have been driving, Stone said, and neither Wayne nor Dianne were wearing a seat belt when the car was removed from the water. The impact with the tree penetrated the driver's side of the car and left a hole about 10 inches in diameter, Stone said.

The Stony Creek Rescue Squad sent a diver into the water to do a preliminary investigation of the scene after the car was found at about 3:30 p.m. The murky water prevented the investigator from determining anything except the doors were closed and all the windows except the front driver's side one were intact, said Rescue Squad Chief Phil Rowe.

Family members of the Guays had been searching for them since Thursday, when calls to the couple's cell phones began to go straight to voice mail. The couple were expected in New York City late Thursday evening.

Authorities all along the East Coast had been notified to be on the lookout for the couple, and the family rented a helicopter for an hour and a half Sunday and five hours Monday to help the search.

Initially authorities suggested that the Guays could have intentionally disappeared for a few days, but family members said that was almost inconceivable.

Stone said he was surprised that the car was not found sooner.

"It's ironic that someone didn't see it," Stone said. "There's never really a minute that a car isn't coming by."

Information from the Associated Press is included in this report.

[StoneColdTaxHater]

I-95 is the most traveled road in America, which means they drove off the road, somebody MUST have seen it happen and did nothing. Sad commentary on American soceity

[KenmcG414]

I understand the family rented a plane and they went and found the vehicle. It's a shame the troopers down there did no put in an effort to locate the vehicle.