Car Found Crashed into Belmont Pond, Driver Sought

Belmont police are investigating Monday a weekend crash in which a car was found crashed into a local pond.

According to Belmont Police Capt. Patrick Halleran, the agency got a call about a vehicle in the pond, at the intersection of Concourse and Clipper drives, around midnight Sunday.

“Upon arrival officers found a Volkswagen Beetle partially submerged in approximately four feet of water,” Halleran said, adding that it took multiple tow trucks more than two hours to pull the vehicle out.

Noticeably absent from the scene were any people, “... and evidence at the scene indicated that the driver walked from the scene toward the nearby Hyatt House Hotel,” Halleran said.

Witnesses told cops that it looked like the driver was a man-- who may have been hurt.

As of Monday morning, police investigators were still trying to get in contact with the vehicle’s owner. It’s registered to someone in the Stockton area, according to the captain.

Anyone with information on this collision is asked to contact Belmont Police at 650-595-7400.