A California doctor allegedly plunged his family hundreds of feet down a coastal cliff in what authorities have described as a murder attempt, but their improbable survival is likely because of luck and a well-built vehicle, experts say.
showed the battered SUV right-side-up, perched precariously on a rocky ledge just above the Pacific Ocean.Jingwen Yu, a professor of mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan’s Transportation Research Institute, said their survival was a “kind of a miracle, considering the impact severity.”
"However, that does not appear to be a contributing factor in this incident," the agency said Tuesday., a fire official involved in the rescue effort, Cal Fire San Mateo Santa Cruz Battalion Chief Brian Pottenger, said the SUV flipped “several” times on its way down. Yu said the SUV appeared to have struck the cliffside as it tumbled toward the ocean.
But the organization’s chief research officer, David Zuby, cautioned that no carmaker prepares for an event like the one on Devils Slide. “People are wearing seatbelts more than they were 30 years ago,” he added. “That for sure or likely played a role in those peoples’ survival.”
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