Cape Town - The body of an unidentified man was pulled from the wreckage of his BMW after it plunged into the ocean and hit rocks off Victoria Road close to Camps Bay on Friday morning.
Glenn DuPont, a coffee vendor on Victoria Road, called the police at 7.30am after noticing the car.
“I’m not sure what time it happened today. We never saw or heard anything,” he said.
“While I was serving a customer, she pointed towards the sea and asked what the object was close to the rocks. We realised that it was a car and that there was one person inside.”
Police, paramedics, and National Sea Rescue Institute officials were on the scene shortly afterwards.
The black BMW was half submerged in the water when police divers searched for any survivors.
Within minutes of opening the left front passenger door two divers extracted the lifeless body of a man dressed in black trousers and light pink shirt.
A Camps Bay resident who stopped to look at the scene said barriers or ramps to slow traffic down were needed to avoid such accidents.
“I use this road every day, this is just devastating. This is an area where we need a ramp - there is always a lot of traffic and at night it is very dark.”
She added that authorities seriously need to think about setting up ramps on coastal roads.
“In the States all coastal roads have ramps. This is something that could have been avoided.”
Cape Argus