SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The California Highway Patrol has released the name of a woman they’re looking for who either jumped or fell from the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge trying to evade police in a stolen car.
The CHP says Thursday that they’re seeking 25-year-old Erlynn Kay Sanchez-Edwards, whose last known address was in Richmond.
Authorities say she survived the fall early Wednesday and emerged from the icy bay water wearing a black dress and no shoes.
A dump truck driver later told the CHP that he had picked up a female hitchhiker who matched the woman’s description and drove her to an undisclosed location.
The 70-foot fall from the Bay Bridge is quite different from a fall from the Golden Gate Bridge, which is about 245 feet down and very difficult to survive.
