An Antioch woman died after she drove off a boat ramp and into the Sacramento River while she was talking on a cell phone with her daughter, asking for directions, authorities said Monday.
Kathleen Gomez Collier, 47, drove her Ford Expedition into the water near Isleton (Sacramento County) around 11:45 p.m. Saturday, said Officer Michael Bradley of the California Highway Patrol.
Collier was lost on Highway 160 and was trying to find her way back to Antioch, so she stopped at Vieira's Resort to get directions, Bradley said.
She was on the phone with her daughter when she drove onto the boat ramp at the resort, Bradley said. She paused briefly before driving into the river, the CHP said.
Just before the call was cut off, Collier told her daughter that her car was filling up with water and to phone her insurance company, Bradley said.
I can’t tell me how many times I’ve stopped a vehicle going the wrong way on a one way street and the driver is looking at the screen on his phone. And then they give me an attitude about it! “Hey, I was following Google Maps….”
ReplyDeleteI shouldn’t be upset with stupid people…there are job security.
MikeAT
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