Totally unpossible.
Texas sees quite a few strange deaths.
JFK
Judge Antonin Scalia
Chao - pun not intended
” celebrating the Chinese New Year”
I’m sure no booze was involved/s
I don’t think you can back a Tesla over obstacles in to a lake.
Under normal circumstances
It has all sorts of sensors and cameras and auto braking systems b
The water no doubt fried the electronics and prevented her from unlocking the door or rolling down the window. At that point that Tesla was just a tomb.
James 4:13-17
13Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, and spend a year there and engage in business and make a profit.” 14[k]Yet you do not know [l]what your life will be like tomorrow. For you are just a vapor that appears for a little while, and then vanishes away. 15[m]Instead, you ought to say, “If the Lord wills, we will live and also do this or that.” 16But as it is, you boast in your [n]arrogance; all such boasting is evil. 17So for one who knows the [o]right thing to do and does not do it, for him it is sin.
Then again, Asian women are by far and away the worst drivers...
Tragic death. I don’t like driving in unfamiliar places at night and can see how this might happen.
Apparently this wasn’t the first time she reversed her car and had trouble.
Cranes
Not the birds.
So many questions are being asked here that have already been addressed in the other articles that have already been posted on FR about the death of Angela Chao. Regardless, the DailyMail article that just came out earlier this morning has much more information and pictures than the WSJ piece…. One important detail it added is that with all the bodies of water on the property, the car sank in the larger of the two ponds north of the ranch house and this one was right next the guest house where her friends were staying. This is the first time that piece of information has been revealed.
Another thing to add to this…. When this was discussed earlier on FR, one of the things I had looked at was an old real estate listing of the property that had not been taken down. At this link (which was still active as of a few minutes ago), there are numerous pictures of the ranch and a video. The one thing that it didn’t do is concentrate much on the ponds that are close to what they call the 10 room guest house. https://www.landandfarm.com/property/893-acres-in-blanco-county-300276/
Regardless, there are pictures that show that much of the ponds are surrounded by large rocks that were put in place there and this raises the question of how the car ended up in the pond. Yes there are openings between some of the rocks but not that many. Here is one of the things that I’ve wondered about for those of you who are wondering about getting out of the car… if she hit just one side of a rock and did so with the car moving quite fast, is it possible that the car flipped so that it was upside down? If so, this would have added to the complexity of the whole thing because with a minute to get out, she would also have been completely disorientated. Frankly, it might be amazing that she actually was able to make any calls if it sank in a minute or so.
Kyle Bass who also has a ranch in Texas posted an X message shortly after it happened, and he stated that “there is amazing video of the car violently entering the water going backwards.” What he did not say is how he knows any of that. Was it completely pitch black dark? Was it well lit? Well, the DM article says that the emergency personnel had to put up lighting. When I did a check just now, Feb. 9 was a new moon so there would have been no moonlight.
Whacked?
Yeh, sure. 😆
Reminds me of obamy’s chef drowning after his paddle board attacked him...
If she backed her car into a pond despite a back-up camera, and alert system, then she must have been drunk, or exceptionally furious at someone she’d just left, and she slammed her foot down on the gas pedal, not realizing the car was in reverse, and forgetting there was a pond behind her. According to a Freeper, the ranch belonged to her husband, so it’s not as if she hadn’t been there before.
Electric windows turn cars into death traps when you are in water. It freaks me out that I can’t open the door when the ignition is on, and it isn’t in PARK.
This is such a horrible story!
for those of you that keep saying 4 minute walk that is not what the article says. a 4 minute walk is much different than a 4 minute drive. I can understand taking the car.
the video of that property shows multiple types of terrain vehicles. Of course a bunch of panicked drunk women would not know what to do even if they knew about the vehicles.
that property looks like one that would provide a lot of joy for the next owner.