Police are investigating an incident in Virginia in which a car appeared to drive off the end of the Virginia Beach Fishing Pier Saturday morning.
According to witnesses, the car left Atlantic Avenue just before 7 a.m., crossed the boardwalk and then smashed through two gates before ending up at the end of a 1,000-foot pier and nose-diving into the Atlantic Ocean.
Virginia Beach police and firefighters responded quickly and located the vehicle in the water using sonar equipment, officials told Scripps News Norfolk.
“From the scans we have, we believe the vehicle is located at the bottom of the ocean,” said Officer Jude Brenya with the Virginia Beach Police Department. “It takes a while to get the divers ready and then they have to have a plan in place [before divers can enter the water].”
Anglers who frequent the pier tell Scripps News Norfolk that the water is about 15 feet deep at the end.
Officials could not immediately confirm other details such as the identity of the driver, whether or not the vehicle was driven into the ocean on purpose and whether anyone else was inside the vehicle. It is believed that no one survived.
This story was originally published by Anthony Sabella and Danielle Saitta at Scripps News Norfolk.
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