VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Many questions remain days after a car drove off the Virginia Beach Fishing Pier at the Oceanfront and plunged into the water.
As of Wednesday morning, police say the car is still on the ocean floor, a few hundred feet from the Oceanfront boardwalk. Recovery efforts are still being coordinated, though have been difficult amid dangerous water conditions, police say.
Now, police say a missing male may be connected to the incident.
Here’s a timeline of what we’ve learned so far:
Saturday, Jan. 27 : Car drives off pier into the water before dawn
- Reports about a car that drove off the pier at the Oceanfront on 14 th St. started to come in just before 7 a.m., police said.
- When Virginia Beach police and fire personnel arrived at the pier minutes later, they said they found a car in the water.
WTKR - A video shared with News 3 shows the car drive toward the end of the pier, briefly pause, and then go off the end.
Raw video shows car driving off VB fishing pier