Driver dead in car days after crashing

Your thoughts are interesting. Why not stop by for a visit so we can discuss your theories further? I’m at the Bates Motel, Fairvale, CA

I can't remember the details but a teenage girl disappeared driving home years ago. She was found many years later in her car in the local river. She'd crashed off the road.

Reminds me of that spooky urban legend of the bride who got locked in the chest/cupboard. Everyone assumed she'd ran off til her skeleton was found years later.

Linked is a similar story

Prior to about 10-20 years ago, there were a LOT of roads in South Florida that were along the western outskirts of Miami, Fort Lauderdale, and West Palm Beach where you had a narrow road sitting relatively close to a shockingly deep canal with no barrier whatsoever. Broward County in particular had a SHOCKING number of roads that were like this, including Flamingo Road, Griffin Road, US-27, and SR84 (1970s, before construction began on I-595). Flamingo Road in particular has SO MANY "roadside memorial" signs, it practically looks like a fucking CEMETERY through Davie, Cooper City, Pembroke Pines, and Miramar. And those are only the MAJOR examples... there are dozens and dozens of shorter stretches of roadway through areas that were similarly bad. The County's official excuse was that if you were driving the speed limit and went off the road, the mud would slow you down before you got to the water's edge... an excuse that conveniently overlooked the fact that EVERYONE on those roads was speeding.

From what I recall, the Turnpike Extension through northwest Miami didn't finally get barriers until approximately FIVE years ago, despite the fact that in any given year, at LEAST 3-5 cars would skid off the road and end up in the canal along the area next to the big bend.

There were also a lot of residential streets in Hialeah, Hialeah Gardens, and Southwest Ranches that had deep ditches IMMEDIATELY adjacent to the road that were NORMALLY (mostly) dry, but could turn into 6-8 foot deep waterways after a week or two of daily summer rainstorms. Both Broward and Dade counties seem to have finally prioritized putting up barriers on most/all of the roads like that starting ~5-10 years ago, but it's shocking how many roads were left like that as long as they were, even after it was obvious to EVERYONE that they were really dangerous.

Collier County (Naples) is among the worst, mostly thanks to Golden Gate Estates. Back in the 1960s, Gulf America Corporation paved THOUSANDS of miles of residential streets through the swamp by digging out deep ditches and dumping the dirt a few feet away to become the new roads' (substandard) foundations. Aside from being dangerous (because the ditches were so deep and so close to the road), most of the roads ended up with serious erosion problems and were collapsing into the adjacent ditches within a few years of GAC's bankruptcy. The county ended up spending so much money redoing the ditches (to make them wider, shallower, and a few feet further from the road), it couldn't afford to put up barriers as well (and the barriers that DID get built ended up being a major safety hazard to bike riders... one swerve to avoid hitting a child, and you'd be thrown head-first into the ditch or end up with laceration wounds on the half of your body that got tangled on the metal rail).

Funny comments on the story at R2. Some real geniuses in that area.

"The excitiment of been different that day, like more audacious or so, who knows. The expetations about a party in the 70's is totally different at 14's. So. There 's good thing. Their relatives know right now that they were not killed for a rapist or tortured. Just destiny."

"God bless their souls. Those dangerous parties does not mean anything but trouble now and back there to the 70's. We have to cut this crap forever."

"I thinking the crap we need to cut out is making dangerous assumptions based on personal biases that lead to a socialist society."

"Whoa! for two decades? how, why in the world this case reached that far?"

(It's mentioned multiple times in the story that the accident happened 40 years ago)

"Missing since the 1970s but didn't open an investigation until 2004?"

(It's plainly stated in the article that the case was investigated in 1971 and that a cold case was opened in 2004.)

Something like this happened to a local couple. They were driving home to NY from FL and disappeared. The family called police in the last state they had called home from to "check in" with family members. The family gave the name of the town the couple had called from. Police said "We'll let you know."

Family finall hired a private detective who, checked 911 calls along I95 in that state on the day they last spoke to family & found one from a man who said he saw a car get hit and go off a road.

Local cops said "Yeah, we checked that out and didn't find nuthin."

Family hired a helicopter which sighted the car right off the road where the man had called 911.it was just a few miles from where the couple had called their family. The car had been hit by a hit and run driver, gone off the road into a rain ditch. Tbe couple and their dog drowned.

Your post, OP, reminded me of a news report I read several years ago about six skeletal remains found in a '57 Chevy and a '69 Camaro at the bottom of Foss Lake, Oklahoma. These people vanished into thin air decades ago, which makes one wonder about all the missing people lying at the bottom of a lake somewhere waiting to be discovered.

I loved those old Camaros. I had a friend whose father owned a car dealership and got a new one every year.

I recall reading one of these stories about a car that landed in a waterway in Florida. It was discovered decades later. Part of the problem is these waterways are filled with gators, so can’t be easily searched (or survived, I guess).

There was an episode of Dissapeared where the guys girlfriend was off the road stuck in her car for a week or two. He found her just before she was about to die. The police made a lot of mistakes. One of the few episodes where they find the person alive.

My mom related a story about some of friends of hers who drove off a freeway overpass that was under construction and weren't found for days. The steering wheel had gone through the driver's chest.