A mysterious accident occurred in the mountains above Malibu early last week after a Cadillac Escalade plunged 1,000 feet off a steep road near Deer Creek Canyon in Ventura County. The incident occurred around 2 a.m. on Sunday, but wasn’t reported to authorities until nearly 10 hours later, raising questions about the delay. The crash involved at least one fatality.
According to a report from Los Angeles CBS affiliate KCAL News, the Cadillac Escalade rolled down the rocky terrain after failing to properly negotiate a curve. Remarkably, a man sitting in the front passenger seat managed to climb out of the wreckage, make his way back to the road before hitching a ride home. Despite surviving the crash, the passenger did not inform police about the incident until the next day, reportedly because he could not contact the other two men who had been in the car. The passenger eventually provided investigators with the names of the driver and the second passenger, both of whom were missing at the time.
Search-and-rescue teams, along with specially trained dogs, conducted a thorough search of the rugged area following the crash. Initially, rescuers found no sign of the missing men. However, after resuming the search later in the week, authorities discovered one body in the canyon.
Investigators are still piecing together the events leading up to the crash. The Cadillac Escalade in question was equipped with out-of-state license plates, and officials are working with authorities in that state to gather more information, including the owner of the destroyed SUV.
The surviving passenger’s delay in reporting the incident has added to the mystery, as officials try to determine the circumstances surrounding the crash and the fate of the missing individual.
The narrow, winding roads in the area are known to be highly treacherous, especially at night. While the survivor’s escape is being called a miracle, questions remain about why the crash went unreported for so long and what happened to the remaining occupant in the vehicle.
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Maybe a stolen vehicle and a driver who is already wanted for some other crime and needed to time escape, or be helped to escapee, if injured. Or a person claiming to be the passenger who was actually the driver. And maybe no other person even in the vehicle at the time of the crash.
…or somebody being somewhere they shouldn’t be, with someone they shouldn’t be with, in a vehicle that doesn’t belong to them. What happened with the OnStar, I thought it was supposed to notify someone during an accident. Antenna ripped off?
OnStar only reports accidents if the vehicle has a paid subscription.
True.