This car is in the river and people are sitting on the riverbank on blankets thinking they are watching christmas in the park
this isn't a sideshow u halfwits, people have lost their lives and I am sure if it was your family u wouldn't want people sitting around treating it like a side show
sad bastrads
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Dive team to search Waikato River for car plunge victims
12.02.05 11.40am
UPDATE - A team of divers will scour the bottom of the Waikato River later today to search for four people missing after a car plunged over a Hamilton bridge.
The police dive squad from Wellington is due to begin searching the area under Cobham Bridge from about 2pm.
A Subaru Legacy, which was carrying five people, crashed through the side of bridge around 6am.
Police said a male passenger managed to escape and told them four others were still trapped inside. He was taken to Waikato Hospital for treatment.
Police, fire and ambulance staff were sent to the scene and the Waikato River rescue boat was deployed.
However, there has so far been no sign of the vehicle or the four other occupants.
Senior Sergeant Ian Harris said police were still establishing the identities of the four.
As to whether they might also have survived the plunge, he said police had no idea at this stage.
"We haven't found the car, we haven't found any of the other occupants," he said.
"Whether they've all got out and gone home or gone somewhere else, or whether they're in the car at the bottom of the river, who knows? We simply don't know."
The police serious crash unit was investigating the incident, but Mr Harris said it was too early to say what caused the car to hit the side of the bridge.
Mr Harris described the distance from the bridge to the river as "a reasonable drop" and said the water was "pretty deep and fast flowing".
The incident forced the closure of State Highway 1 between Normandy and Grey.
- NZPA
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