Redondo Beach Woman Killed in Malibu Crash

A 57-year-old woman from Redondo Beach likely drowned in heavy surf after her car went off Pacific Coast Highway west of Malibu, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Beverly Moore may have either been thrown from her wrecked car, or climbed out of it, as it was pounded by heavy surf below Highway 1 just east of Mugu Rock on Sunday morning, CHP investigators told KBUU-FM in Malibu Tuesday.

Passersby discovered the wrecked car about 8:15 a.m., according to CHP investigators, who said evidence indicates the vehicle was heading east when it went off the road and into the surf between 6 and 7:30 a.m. that morning.

Moore’s body was recovered by Ventura County firefighters just before 9 a.m. in the water off the beach several hundred yards to the west of the crashed car, investigators said.

--City News Service, photo via Shutterstock