I remember seeing this also! The road was relatively straight and then a sharp turn where people couldn't stop and went over.

As a kid growing up in nor cal I recall reading about a fire team putting out a brush fire found a car with remains of an elderly couple that had meen missing several years. The steep hillside off (iirc) 175 had so much brush they could not open doors, nor crawl out with the windows down. It had become pretty muh a pack rat nest,
Other reports of long submerged cars lurking in the depths of low water serervoirs and lakes, rivers afer storms, etc, Fish has likely heard some interesting stories.

There's some group on YouTube that do search and recovery of drowned vehicles. Usually on long missing persons.

They basically recreate the situation known on the day the people disappeared and then track down the most likely place a car would have gone off the road. Iirc one video where they ended up finding the missing car in a pond on a farm. Seems the driveway was right in line with the road, driver didn't notice the change in pavement and drove straight into the pond. Farm owner had no idea the car was there.

Interesting and sad .

Friend of mine (gone now- RIP, Yank) was from a small town in New York not far from Woodstock. Said there was a highway in the mountains that had a bad curve with a very, very deep drop-off. Seems I remember him saying there were vehicles from back in the 40s? and newer at the bottom. Only accessible by hiking in from the bottom. Many years ago, he and his brother got paid to hike in and bring out the brand-new wheels & tires off an 18 wheeler that had gone over. I would have loved to have been able to go up there with him sometime when we were both younger but as usual, life kinda got in the way.


Tim

There's a concrete truck barrel in Oklahoma like that beside a road. They left it and it's since been painted to look like a space capsule! LOL!

Seems to me that the only reason not to recover that was because it was full and hardened before recovery.

But, I don't see any spilled?

Ah, the Mythbusters episode!