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Official Says It’s Unlikely Soldier Mistook Pier For Causeway
An official says it’s unlikely a missing Texas soldier who evidently drove his car off the end of a pier mistook the pier for a causeway.
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(December 29, 2008)--The South Texas pier that a missing soldier evidently drove his car off the day after Christmas runs closely parallel to the causeway crossing Copano Bay, but its overseer said Monday there was no way of mistaking it for the road.
Some acquaintances of Pfc. Jamie Wagner Sengvanhpheng have speculated that the 21-year-old soldier who was home on leave for the holidays from Fort Bragg, N.C. mistakenly drove out the 1¼-mile pier thinking it was the causeway.
James Sengvanhpheng, Jamie's brother, said Monday he did not know if his brother was trying to cross the causeway.
Because the pier was once part of the old causeway, it might seem reasonable except that Sengvanhpheng would have had drive through a metal pipe barricade lined with reflectors, maneuver to miss a barbecue pit and fish-cleaning area and drive more than mile out the pier before crashing through another barricade on the end.
Both barricades were crushed but there was no damage to the barbecue pit.
Authorities aren’t yet saying what may have led the soldier to drive off the pier.
Authorities first got the call about someone driving on the pier early Friday morning.
At daybreak, they found an Acura submerged in the bay.
It was registered to Sengvanhpheng.
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