A UC Davis graduate has been identified as the driver of a sport-utility vehicle captured on camera driving off a cliff along Highway 1 south of San Francisco several months ago.
Tracey Ivori Sinclair, a San Francisco resident, earned a bachelor’s degree in biological and physical sciences from UCD in 1989, university officials told media outlets Wednesday after the San Francisco-area California Highway Patrol released her identity.
According to the CHP, a passing motorist’s dash camera captured Sinclair’s northbound Lexus SUV veering off the highway near Gray Whale Cove and plunge into the ocean below shortly after 10:30 a.m. Dec. 30. An extensive, multi-agency search failed to immediately locate the vehicle or the driver, due to dangerous ocean conditions.
Human remains and Sinclair’s driver’s license later recovered on nearby Montara State Beach, along with a missing-person report filed by Sinclair’s family, led to her identification through a DNA match and records confirming her ownership of a Lexus SUV, CHP officials said.