Family: Clayton woman's body left in towed car after wreck
Source: WRAL
Smithfield, N.C. Relatives of a Clayton woman said Tuesday that her body was found in her car days after it ran off a highway and was towed off.
Carolyn Ann Watkins' 2000 Pontiac was found in a watery ditch, down a steep embankment off Swift Creek Road, about 4 miles southwest of Smithfield on Friday and was towed to an impound lot, according to a report from the North Carolina State Highway Patrol.
The report states "no driver (was) at the scene of this collision."
Watkins, 62, was last seen Thursday, but her family didn't report her missing to the Smithfield Police Department until Monday, when she failed to show up at work. They say authorities then found her body in the driver's seat of the Pontiac.
Read more: http://www.wral.com/family-clayton-woman-s-body-left-in-towed-car-after-wreck/12294636/
The pic of her car taken at the scene.
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shenmue
(38,501 posts)xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)a few times but doesn't the tow truck driver need to open the driver's side door and make certain the car is in neutral? Wouldn't a body get in the way? This story doesn't make sense.
bathroommonkey76
(3,827 posts)On WTVD (a local news site) the family says that the body could have been obscured by the deployed airbags and they said the car WAS searched at the tow yard. Very strange story.
Here is that link:
http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=9049631
savalez
(3,517 posts)not the usual towing ones. Flatbeds just drag the whole car up onto the bed with a cable, secure it and then drive off. Maybe they used a one of those.
yellerpup
(12,249 posts)No doubt it was picked up on a flatbed. I doubt they looked inside.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)have long enough cables to winch cars out of ditches, whether they are old style or flatbed style. Cars in ditches are a common towing scenario.
yellerpup
(12,249 posts)I thought a heavier tow truck would have been necessary.
dothemath
(345 posts)Wrecker pulls car from ditch, whatever. Hooks to front end, puts 'skates' under rear wheels and no part of car now touches ground. Doesn't excuse the wrecker driver idiot for not looking in the car, nor of the cop who was on the scene from performing due diligence as to extracting as many details as possible from the situation.
notadmblnd
(23,720 posts)the truck driver actually attached some sort of tie off to the steering wheel.
TeamPooka
(24,155 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)Weird.
azurnoir
(45,850 posts)rrrright
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)formercia
(18,479 posts)You can see her head and part of her shoulder on the passenger side of the vehicle where she smashed into the windshield and roof support.
antigone382
(3,682 posts)But you have aroused my curiosity...
Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)Brigid
(17,621 posts)The top of her head anyway. And I'm on a freaking smartphone.
progressoid
(49,825 posts)LiberalLovinLug
(14,153 posts)What did they think, someone pushed it over?
Very strange, and awful.