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A 73-year-old woman reported missing Monday, Dec. 22, from the Santa Clara area of Eugene, was found a day later in a vehicle that crashed down a steep embankment 5 miles east of Lowell, the Lane County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday.
According to the sheriff’s office, Melissa Ann Radcliff died at the scene of the crash off West Boundary Road. Her vehicle was found Tuesday upside down and partially submerged in a shallow creek.
A sheriff’s deputy, Lane County Sheriff’s Search and Rescue, as well as Lowell fire personnel, attempted lifesaving measures upon finding Radcliff inside the vehicle.
The Eugene Police Department shared possible vehicle location information with the sheriff’s office at 10:30 a.m., and a drone-operating deputy found the vehicle within an hour, a sheriff’s office spokesperson said.
Eugene police on Tuesday announced a search for Radcliff, who was last seen at about 11 a.m., Monday, with calls to her cellphone going straight to voicemail.
It’s unclear how long Radcliff was in the vehicle before being found.
“We don’t know when the crash happened,” Eugene police spokesperson Melinda McLaughlin said in an email Wednesday.
Eugene police learned that Radcliff might be east of Lowell by way of an “exigent ping,” McLaughlin said.
Police are able to cite exigent circumstances, which are urgent situations requiring immediate action, to get cellphone location information from a mobile phone carrier.
However, the information is generally not precise, providing law enforcement agencies with information about the general area where the phone is located rather than a specific address or pinpoint location.