SANTA CRUZ — A 20-year-old San Jose man was arrested after allegedly ending a date by drunkenly driving a automotive off the long-lasting railroad trestle on the Santa Cruz Seashore Boardwalk.
His feminine passenger was severely injured, police stated.
Emergency responders had been known as at 5:19 a.m. Sunday to the single-vehicle crash on the San Lorenzo River Railroad Bridge. On the seaside beneath the bridge was a pink Toyota Prius on its roof, Santa Cruz Police Division spokesperson Joyce Blaschke stated.
The passenger was airlifted to an out-of-county trauma heart and was hospitalized in severe situation, Blaschke stated.
The driving force was arrested on suspicion of driving beneath the affect inflicting bodily damage. In accordance with county jail logs, he remained on the Santa Cruz County Jail as of Tuesday.
Investigators say the automotive was touring at excessive velocity when it entered the railroad trestle from its west finish, close to the boardwalk, Blaschke stated.
The driving force reportedly instructed police that he had spent Saturday on the seaside with the lady and that they had been headed house on the time of the crash.
The bridge carries railroad tracks and a pedestrian walkway over the river, between the amusement park and East Cliff Drive within the Seabright neighborhood. It has been known as the “Misplaced Boys bridge” due to a scene within the 1987 vampire film that used boardwalk places — however the precise bridge proven in that scene is in Southern California.