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You can see the car by searching Google Earth for 'moon bay circle, Wellington, FL'. This is a screen shot I did from GE. The car lay in shallow water for 20 years before a guy playing with Google Earth spotted it. The driver's body is still inside. DEATH CAR

That is an eagle eyed google customer. But, look at this little pond, not deep and no current. Probably not very cold in Florida, not even in early November. Water probably 70 degrees or more.

I am always puzzled by drownings like this. They said he wasn't drunk, Good God, you see you are going into the water, you Get Those Windows Down! Roll down at least one window while you still have electric.
Then, you swim out the window and in this case, either wade or dog paddle 15 feet to shore.
I could do that in this pond drunk, at midnight, with a blindfold on.

These cases happen 3 or 4 times a year, here in the modern era it is usually a female, when she finds herself floating in the canal, rather than doing something constructive, like rolling her window down, she gets on, 100 percent, the Iphone, and either calls her Dad, or 911.

Great idea! Call 911, the Fire Department will be there in 35 minutes with the dive team, to haul your corpse out of the car.

Had a drunk drive into a lake near here and while they were pulling his dead body out they found another one that had been there for about a year.

Probably a lot more common than you would think.

This makes me wonder when (and where) they are going to find Deflave...

The houses must have been built after he went feet wet.

If the houses were already there when he decided to play U-Boat skipper, his azz had to have been drunk to end up there.

Jan. 4, 1998 - Covington KY Office Michael Partin fell off a bridge into the Ohio River during a foot chase involving a drunk driver. His body was not recovered for five months.

However, during the five month search for Officer Partin's body, divers recovered three other bodies: A white female who had been reported missing a week or so earlier. A white male who had been reported missing several months prior. Still strapped into his Honda Del Sol. A black female who had never been reported as missing.

"The grainy image from Google Earth shows a car resting on its side at a ledge where the pond comes to an end between rows of residences near the 3700 block of Moon Bay Circle. The community was under construction when Moldt disappeared."

from: https://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/...12-tbuqkjl375ds7nijn6nl32cvu4-story.html

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Yup

Some of our surveyors found a dude sitting in his jeep that had been missing for about 4 or 5 years out on RM 620 at Lohmans crossing road (Lakeway Texas out by Lake Travis). when we started a widening project. He apparently ran off road thru the Ashe junipers and hot an oak tree. Killed him dead as Julius Caesar. ( or Sid Caesar if you prefer). Damn junipers sprang back up behind him, hiding his vehicle. Thick stuff. Bet he wasn’t 10’ off ROW. This is a busy-azz highway too. It was 4 lane hwy being widened to 4 lane, with center turn lane and improved shoulder.

Like Skeletor? 😄

There was one found across the Ohio River from us at a river boat ramp. The driver/car had been missing for decades and was found by accident.

Back in the ‘60’s, a fellow in a pick up truck picked up a couple of hippies that where hitch hiking. The driver dodged a deer, ran off the road and into a fairly deep pond. The investigating officers when questioning the driver, discovered that the two hitch hikers didn’t survive. When questioned, the driver stated....”I guess they didn’t know how to get the tailgate open! memtb

Similar thing as I recall from Route 9W above West Point in NY State on a winding four-lane road around a scenic overlook maybe early 70’s.

When looking for a lady known to have gone off the road down that steep wooded hillside and presumably died, they found another that had been there for years.

They were doing some road repair, and a bit of widening, on a very hilly stretch of two lane road, and found a car with the remains of a driver, front end fully smashed in and buried next to the road. They think it was a drunk driver who went airborne and wide of the road, and smashed into the embankment , then the embankment gave way and covered it over. No one had a clue it was there.

We were asked to help search an area in the Angeles National Forest for a missing/dead person. The mountain rescue team found the wrong dead person almost immediately and the right dead person was found the next day. We quit doing that shortly thereafter.

He should've stayed out of the car pool lane.

The people now know why they got so many snags fishing in that corner.

I am surprised a plane or helo didn’t spot it.

Well, I did, and there it is!

Ba da bump.