Two police officers patrolling the beach in an SUV ran over and killed a sunbather Monday, authorities said.

The officers did not immediately realize they ran over the woman and continued driving, police Cmdr. Tom Chronister said in a statement.

The officers, who were not immediately identified, had stopped on a small berm of sand to watch a swimmer whom they believed to be in distress. When they saw the swimmer was fine, they drove over the berm and apparently over the woman’s head, authorities said.

A witness called the Oxnard Fire Department to report the woman was bleeding on the beach just south of the Embassy Suites Mandalay Beach Resort. The woman appeared to be in her 30s and carried no identification, said Ventura County senior deputy medical examiner Mike Feiler.

Authorities believe the woman may have been a hotel guest since her towel belonged to the Embassy Suites.

An autopsy was scheduled for Tuesday. The officers have been placed on paid leave pending an investigation.

Oxnard is located about 55 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles.

A sad way to die.

Wonder if she was sexy.

Wonder if she was sexy.
This thread is worthless without pix!!!!!

Seriously though, how do you just totally and completely not see a woman in a swimsuit sunbathing right there in front of your car?????? Not to mention how would you not notice running over something as big as a human???

flippin' weirdos

This thread is worthless without pix!!!!!

Seriously though, how do you just totally and completely not see a woman in a swimsuit sunbathing right there in front of your car?????? Not to mention how would you not notice running over something as big as a human???

flippin' weirdos

Sand is soft and, as they were on a berm, not level. They probably felt a suspension flex but figured it was due to the terrain.

maybe she was buried in the sand (aka-ghetto sunblock) and her head looked like a crab.

http://lay-c.com/log/archives2/images/072604/IMG_4719_sholehburied.jpg

awhhh nasty... right over her head.... sad way to die indeed. closed casket funeral ftl...

u get that sermon for her dead head already?

Sand is soft and, as they were on a berm, not level. They probably felt a suspension flex but figured it was due to the terrain.
Well, maybe she was the berm???? Like batman said, maybe she was buried in the sand. Then I could understand.

I've driven on the sand on the beaches several times. If she wasn't buried, then there is absolutely no reason they would NOT have felt that and realized that something was wrong. I'm not saying it's impossible to run over someone like that, but to run them over AND NOT realize it is a far stretch for my imagination.

Either way, you would have thought that they would have seen her - especially since she was half nekkid!



. . . the same fate awaits us all . . .
We are all gonna be run over by cops in an SUV while sunbathing??!!!?? WOW!

(sorry, i just had too:);) I couldn' resist)

http://images.opentopia.com/enc/167/166103/David_Hasselhoff_at_Baywatch.jpg

the other obvious question is how could you not see (or hear) a cop car rolling toward you? she must have been sleeping or had earphones on

gives new meaning to Megadeth's "Wake Up Dead"
GOOD FREAKIN' POINT! lol She was probably thinking about how much she could get from a law sut against them later!

she was probably like some squirrel on the road, thinking that the dark shadow is a safe place to hide.

the other obvious question is how could you not see (or hear) a cop car rolling toward you? she must have been sleeping or had earphones on

gives new meaning to Megadeth's "Wake Up Dead"
so.. god keeps you from falling off your yzf-r1 and god keeps your fd from oversteering.