Woman Drives Car Into Water at Ocean Beach
(02-10) 10:00 PST SAN FRANCISCO — A woman suffered minor injuries this morning when she drove her car into the water at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach, authorities said.
Firefighters arrived around 6:30 a.m. and found the woman sitting in her partially submerged sedan near Lincoln Way. Rescuers waded into the water and pulled the woman out.
The middle-aged woman, whose name has not been released, used a ramp near Lincoln to get onto the beach and managed to drive across roughly 350 feet of sand before coming to a stop in the surf, said Fire Department Capt. Jeanne Seyler.
One has to wonder why this happened. The woman had to know what she was doing, because there is no easy way to get a car from the road all the way to the water on the north end of Ocean Beach where this occurred. You have to be a pretty skilled driver to negotiate the ramp and the thick piles of sand that accumulate on it. After the ramp, the beach is over 100 yards wide before you hit the water. Amazing that she made it so far.