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Elderly couple and dachshunds tragically die after car plummets down 300ft cliff
John and Lynn king were reportedly instantly killed once their silver motor crashed 300ft to the ground after going off the ridge on Friday.
A bus driver and his frail wife tragically died alongside their two dachshunds after their Ford Mondeo plummeted off a cliff on Friday.
It is understood John and Lynn king were instantly killed once their silver motor crashed 300ft to the ground after going off the ridge at Alum Bay, Isle of Wight on Friday.
Neighbours have told how Lynn was so ill and frail she hadn't left home for two years. John was a bus driver for Southern Vectis, an operator on the Isle of Wight, and is reported to have good local knowledge of the roads, the Mirror reports.
One shocked local said they saw the couple, thought to have been in their early 70s, just hours before they died.
They told Mail Online: "It's really sad, I spoke to John a few times. He would always park his car right outside my house. I think I saw his wife maybe twice in the three years they'd been living in the road.
"She wasn't well. I don't know exactly what she was suffering from but I think it was serious. John was effectively her carer. I never saw nurses or medically trained staff ever go in. I think he did everything for her."
The neighbour said he saw John help Lynn to the car on Friday afternoon. They also had their two dachshunds with them, the friend added. They said: "His wife looked really, really frail. She was hunched over quite badly and was finding it very difficult to walk. I was surprised to see her out of the house."
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Police launched an investigation into the pair's deaths are believed to be searching the couple's rented terrace home in Cowes, Isle of Wight.
Pictures have shown officers there and at the fatal crash scene - at the well-known coastal spot on the west of the island.
Mercy crews, including Coastguard, police, firefighters and paramedics were all deployed to the horror scene on Friday, and within minutes, reportedly fought to save a man who was pulled from the wreckage and onto the shore. Response teams were then seen commencing CPR on one of the casualties, according to the Mail Online.
Photographs of the aftermath show the wreckage of the car submerged in the water. With the roof and bonnet crumpled, while coastguard searched around it.
Alum Bay New Road, left the road, came off the clifftop and came to rest in the water below."
Emergency services rushed to the scene and a winchman was lowered from the coastguard helicopter down to the bottom of the cliff on Friday.
