Last Updated on March 7, 2017 by CCAR Staff
HESPERIA >> The sheriff’s dive team is on standby as the search for the body of 2-year-old Noah Abbott continued Tuesday, five days after the car he was riding in crashed through a fence and into the California Aqueduct in Hesperia.
The toddler’s mother, Christina Eileen Estrada, 31, and 3-year-old brother, Jeremiah Abbott, were also killed in the Thursday evening crash. An older sibling, Elijah Estrada, 10, survived.
“Dive Team is on stndby in event Noah Abbott is located. Ground crews & aqueduct employees continue srching the 7 mile wtrway,” Lt. Doug Wolfe, the San Bernardino County sheriff’s dive team commander, posted to Twitter on Tuesday morning.
Twice since the crash, divers had to be pulled from the waterway due to safety concerns.
The crash was reported 6:45 p.m. Thursday near Main Street and the California Aqueduct, according to a California Highway Patrol log entry.
Around 7:30 p.m., the San Bernardino County Fire Department tweeted that the car had been found submerged, and the dive team was “making entry for rescue.”
The dive team pulled the boys’ mother from the aqueduct, and she was pronounced dead at the scene.
Authorities say Estrada was traveling west on Main Street when for unknown reasons she drove through the fence and ended up in the water.
About two hours after the vehicle went into the aqueduct, authorities pulled it from the waterway.
