We Speak To The Man Whose Car PLUNGED 40 METRES Off Hallett Cove Cliff!

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Speaker 1 (00:10):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
App Yesterday and hall Att Cove, a very silly, silly
thing happened. Someone his name's Marcus left his car and
his driveway car on a handbrake, off car rolls back
across the road and down a cliff onto the beach.

Speaker 1 (00:33):
Incredible pictures. You might have seen them on the news.
We have Marcus on the line with us now, the
man whose car ended up in the hall Att Cove Bay.
Good morning, Marcus. What happens?

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Well, essentially, I've had a problem with the car, with
the battery being flat. I've had to jump start it
many times or get the raa before my neighbor lent
me a jump starter, and unfortunately the battery was flat.
On Tuesday, I had to jump start it and my
mum wanted me to do an extra thing for her

(01:05):
up at the shopping center, so I had driven back
up the drive left the car at which I believed
I had left him break and there is no handbrake.
There's only a little button on those little pea buttons.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
They're so confusing. Marcus.

Speaker 3 (01:20):
Sure enough, when I came back, it was all silent
outside where the car should have been, and there were
the neighbors, the local neighbors gathered around the fence, and
I had not connected to me what had happened to
this car. And I actually couldn't believe that this had
happened to the car. So it had rolled down the hill,

(01:41):
fortunately not hitting anybody.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yes, so lucky.

Speaker 1 (01:45):
How far did it roll from your driveway to when
it ran through a fence?

Speaker 3 (01:48):
Well, we do have a fairly steep driveway, but I
guess it was about I don't know, twenty five meters pose.

Speaker 2 (01:55):
And then it went across a road.

Speaker 3 (01:56):
Yes, that's right, and off a cliff. Well, it had
to break the fence that it was pushing through, because
it's only meant to stop the pedestrians or bicyclists, I suppose.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah, it's a small fence.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
Okay, I mean, I'm a morbid person. And the first
thing I thought I was imagine if there were people
on that beach, just walking on hall Att Cove Beach
having a nice well.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
Cut off full access to the beach. Now, the council
has since they've put up the bridges, right, Okay, so
since the eighties. I've like brother and I we used
to you know, climb all over the cliff and stuff
like that because we didn't you know, the eighties was
a different time.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
This is in the beach section of cliff where no
one goes. Yeah, are you.

Speaker 3 (02:37):
Ensured yes, comprehensively with RA So do they sort it out?

Speaker 1 (02:40):
I don't really know how this works to get your card.

Speaker 3 (02:42):
The thing is. The thing is that they do have
a private investigator who will grill me for about ninety
minutes and stuff like that, which is fine, you know,
but my mother's eighty five. I don't want her to
go through that sort of stuff, yeah, because it's enough
hussle for me to have to deal with, you know,
fixing up the car and stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
But market they're just grilling you, that little private investigator grilling.
Is that just to make sure that you didn't, like,
accidentally on purpose leave the handbrake off because you don't
like your car? Is that what that's about?

Speaker 3 (03:15):
It could well be, yes, that's what I believe. The
private investigator is sort of trying to shake you a
bit too, because we don't have the same kind of
process in America where they you know, sort of almost
have a duel in the in the courtroom.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
But you wouldn't do something like that, would you make bet?

Speaker 3 (03:33):
No, No, it's just they want to make sure that
you know, you've been truthful about what happened. Look, I've got,
you know, wet wallets and wet clothes. I had to
wade into the ocean to get my stuff out of
the car, and you know, put on little rubber booties
and stuff like that so that you could get into
the car. And you know, it was the sun was

(03:57):
going it was sunset when the car sort of went
over the edge, so it was getting even darker past
sunset when I went to get to the car on
the Tuesday night to get the stuff.

Speaker 2 (04:08):
The silliest thing you've ever done is that? Would you
say that?

Speaker 1 (04:11):
That's number one?

Speaker 3 (04:11):
Well, look, the thing is that you've got no handbrake.
It's all electronic. I mean, I don't think it's a
good idea not to have a handbrake in a car
because we're all used to that action.

Speaker 1 (04:22):
You know, Yeah, totally, Marcus, you will never ever leave
your car without double checking all of that for the
rest of your last week on a hell, that's something
to take out of this.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
But it was all, yeah, well, it's just that everything
is electronic. Now the car will be driving you one
day to the shops. But you know, till that happens,
they still need to leave handbrakes in there and things
like that for people to you know, pull up on
and stuff like that.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
So thank you for teaching us all the lesson, Marcus. No,
good luck with the private investigator.

Speaker 3 (04:53):
Bye bye.