Posted on 01/03/2020 1:40:51 PM PST by Enlightened1
Authorities in California are desperately searching for an SUV and its occupants after it was captured on video driving on a highway shoulder and then flying off a cliff.
In the 170-second video released by the San Mateo County Sheriff's Office, the dark-colored vehicle can be seen traveling northbound and then shooting across State Route 1 just south of Gray Whale Cove State Beach in Half Moon Bay, California, before disappearing from view.
A person who was traveling on the multi-lane highway saw the SUV and captured the dramatic moment on video at around 11 a.m. on Monday, according to the San Jose Mercury News.
In the video, the person pans their camera over the highway and then to the right, facing the ocean. Then, suddenly, the SUV passes in front of the car to the right, goes airborne and disappears from the frame.
California Highway Patrol Officer Bert Diaz told ABC News on Thursday that it was hard to determine from the video how fast the car was going before it went off the cliff. He said the fall was about 100 to 150 feet to the ocean.
Police said they believe the car plunged away from the jagged cliff embankment into the water below, which they estimated to be 30 to 40 feet deep.
"It's hard to determine as to what exactly happened. ... What we saw is what everyone else has seen," Diaz said. "It's hard to say if it was intentional, if it was an accident or if there was any foul play but we're looking into everything. ... We do know from what we've gathered that the vehicle did not collide with the rocks or with the hillside. ... We believe that it might have just submerged into the water."
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Here is the video of the car driving off the cliff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dBiZEUssjU&feature=emb_title
YIKES!
Remember the lesbian Bernie supporter with all the adopted black kids that drove off the side of the cliff?
https://www.ktvu.com/news/jury-finds-family-of-8-died-by-murder-suicide-in-cliff-crash
Horrible. They should check the rocks carefully, because I knew someone who had a family member go off those cliffs but not reach the ocean. I think he was probably alive in that crushed car for some time until hikers found the car by accident about a week later. Horrible, horrible thing, and this driver probably has family looking for him. Prayers for all.
I’m guessing suicide. Hope there were kids or other passengers.
Just a guess, the car was not occupied, someone wanted to create a youtube video that would go viral.
“...desperately searching for an SUV and its occupants...”
A recovery operation, now. Looking at the aerial shot in the article, that’s a nasty road, and I’d bet there are more cars, trucks and motorcycles down in those rocks in the ocean.
Someone fell asleep at the wheel? I’ll refrain from posting the Thelma and Louise pic...
It’s good to have a dashcam...
Thelma and Louise ... paging Thelma and Louise ... please pick up the aqua-phone.
Thelma and Louised.
Suicide.
High Speed, no braking or loss of control...
Copycat murder suicide?
They were probably responding to an important text message
Anybody missing a blue smallish SUV? Anybody got sonar? Did videographer get outta car and look for SUV and follow its path?
That car was simply following the state.
Doing their small part to help with climate change.
That was my first thought.
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