\n\t\t\t\t\t\tOne man died after the car he was driving veered off the road in the Davenport area and plunged more than 400 feet down a steep cliff onto a beach below, where it was pounded by heavy surf.\u201cThe initial call was for a single vehicle reported over the bank,\u201d said CAL FIRE Battalion Chief Cameron McFadden.That call came in just before 1 p.m., with the car resting on its hood just north of Davenport Landing.\u201cRight where the patient drove off, it\u2019s a very steep cliff there. There\u2019s very little access to make it directly down to where the patient is,\u201d McFadden said.It is unknown what caused the driver to veer off the road and over the cliff. There was no easy way down for first responders, who had to stage up the road at Greyhound Rock County Park, where lifeguards had to run and swim for nearly a mile before reaching the driver, who had been ejected from the car into the water.\u201cThe two lifeguards, marine safety officers, that were first on scene did pull the victim out of the water and perform CPR until the victim was long-lined, or hoisted, off the beach and up on the cliff, where resuscitation efforts were continued,\u201d said Santa Cruz Marine Safety Capt. David Bodine.Despite lifesaving efforts, the adult male was pronounced dead a short while later. An autopsy may help determine whether drugs, alcohol or a medical emergency played a role in the crash.The rescue was the second water rescue in less than 24 hours involving many of the same agencies: CAL FIRE, State Parks, CHP and lifeguards. Sunday night, they responded to eight people trapped in a cave near Panther Beach after high tide came in. All were safely rescued.\u201cOur agencies all work together quite a bit on the North Coast. I feel like we work well together, and it\u2019s a team effort,\u201d Bodine said.Efforts are now being planned to remove the car from the beach just south of Greyhound Rock County Park.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
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One man died after the car he was driving veered off the road in the Davenport area and plunged more than 400 feet down a steep cliff onto a beach below, where it was pounded by heavy surf.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe initial call was for a single vehicle reported over the bank,\u201d said CAL FIRE Battalion Chief Cameron McFadden.<\/p>\n
That call came in just before 1 p.m., with the car resting on its hood just north of Davenport Landing.<\/p>\n
\u201cRight where the patient drove off, it\u2019s a very steep cliff there. There\u2019s very little access to make it directly down to where the patient is,\u201d McFadden said.<\/p>\n
It is unknown what caused the driver to veer off the road and over the cliff. There was no easy way down for first responders, who had to stage up the road at Greyhound Rock County Park, where lifeguards had to run and swim for nearly a mile before reaching the driver, who had been ejected from the car into the water.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe two lifeguards, marine safety officers, that were first on scene did pull the victim out of the water and perform CPR until the victim was long-lined, or hoisted, off the beach and up on the cliff, where resuscitation efforts were continued,\u201d said Santa Cruz Marine Safety Capt. David Bodine.<\/p>\n
Despite lifesaving efforts, the adult male was pronounced dead a short while later. An autopsy may help determine whether drugs, alcohol or a medical emergency played a role in the crash.<\/p>\n
The rescue was the second water rescue in less than 24 hours involving many of the same agencies: CAL FIRE, State Parks, CHP and lifeguards. Sunday night, they responded to eight people trapped in a cave near Panther Beach after high tide came in. All were safely rescued.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur agencies all work together quite a bit on the North Coast. I feel like we work well together, and it\u2019s a team effort,\u201d Bodine said.<\/p>\n
Efforts are now being planned to remove the car from the beach just south of Greyhound Rock County Park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One man died after the car he was driving veered off the road in the Davenport area and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651463,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5300,4,450,6906,117516,24205,280992,10112,27117,280995,451,75996,35094,280994,3,2862,280993,452,453,24370,282],"class_list":["post-651462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-beach","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-car","tag-cliff","tag-davenport","tag-david-bodine","tag-driver","tag-foot","tag-greyhound-rock-county-park","tag-headlines","tag-initial-call","tag-lifeguard","tag-lifesaving-effort","tag-news","tag-road","tag-same-agency","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories","tag-victim","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}