VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — We now know more information about the driver who drove off the Virginia Beach Fishing Pier just over a week ago.
On Tuesday, Feb. 6, police confirmed the person who recovered from the ocean with the car that drove off the pier was a 57-year-old man from Virginia Beach.
The new information comes after a medical examiner confirmed the man’s identity. Police did not release the man’s name.
Police also confirmed that the man had been reported missing by his family.
Before he was identified, VBPD said they believed he might be connected to the incident, since his case had many similarities to the circumstances surrounding the car that was driven into the water.
Reports of a car going off the Virginia Beach Fishing Pier started coming in around 7 a.m. on Jan. 27.
In a viral video viewed more than 12 million times, a car can be seen driving down the pier, not stopping and falling into the water below.
Raw video shows car driving off VB fishing pier
It was a moment that captured the attention of people around the United States and beyond and drew calls for a focus on mental health.