Family In SUV May Have Intentionally Driven Off Cliff, Police Say

[mahatmakanejeeves]

The story is two days old, and thus not LBN. I searched and did not find it at DU.

Family In SUV May Have Intentionally Driven Off Cliff, Police Say

April 2, 2018 7:16 AM ET

SCOTT NEUMAN

https://www.twitter.com/ScottNeumanNPR

Police say that the driver of a SUV carrying a family with several adopted children may have intentionally plunged off a cliff along California's scenic coast last month, according to local news reports.

The family from Woodland, Wash. — Sarah and Jennifer Hart, who were married, and at least three of the couple's six adopted children — was in the vehicle on California's scenic Highway 1 near the city of Westport when it accelerated rapidly off the cliff and fell 100 feet to the rocky shore.

However, Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman told KGW-TV that authorities have "every indication to believe" that all six children were inside at the time of the crash.

The Associated Press reports: "The two women, both 38, were found dead inside the SUV, while three of their children — Markis Hart, 19, Jeremiah Hart, 14, and Abigail Hart, 14 — were discovered outside the vehicle. Searchers were looking for Hannah Hart, 16; Sierra Hart, 12; and Devonte Hart, 15."

[hlthe2b]

1. Has to be one of the saddest stories I can imagine...

May these kids RIP and if there is another realm, let it be everything they wanted and deserved in this life, but never got.

[cwydro]

2. Horrible.

I wonder where the missing children are.

[lunasun]

3. Why didn't they just off themselves let the kids live? No they abused them to the end

[cwydro]

6. I wondered that too.

No way to understand such a crime.

[shenmue]

4. Lord have mercy

[hunter]

5. They checked the car's computer log???

Yep, your car is watching you, and remembering...

But I can't help thinking that if this was another family they'd just say the driver was lacking sleep or distracted.

[Tipperary]

7. Surely you are not serious? Do you remember the drunk mom that killed all those kids in NJ

some years ago? She was straight, married, and everyone was white.

Come on now. Get a grip and take off the tin foil hat. Smh.

[hunter]

12. Drunk driving can be determined by blood tests.

I'm simply commenting that modern automobiles keep similar evidence in their computer logs.

In the past there were no computer logs for the police to check. My own mid-eighties car has a simple analog computer regulating the fuel injection system. It remembers nothing.

I don't drive this kind of car because I'm paranoid. I'm just cheap and some kind of Luddite.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

8. Those poor kids -- the couple sounds like a real mess.

[cwydro]

10. Obviously. Something was very wrong.

It frightens me that the other kids are missing.

[Raine]

9. This is so sad

[appalachiablue]

11. Horrible tragedy expecially for the innocent kids. So far investigators

have determined five deaths, three persons missing, no evidence of vehicle skid marks, none of the passengers were wearing seatbelts and the SUV speedometer retrieved from the crash is set at 90 mph.

[EffieBlack]

13. I doubt the family did anything intentionally. The adult driving the car drove off the cliff

The poor innocent kids in the car were victims.

I don’t even want to think about it.