Dharmesh Patel's wife said he 'intentionally tried to kill' family by driving Telsa off cliff - New York Post

The woman of a California doctor charged with deliberately driving them and their kids disconnected a 250-foot cliff had screamed astatine rescuers that her hubby “intentionally tried to kill” them all, according to officials.

Neha Patel, 41, was inactive conscious erstwhile paramedics made it to her family’s crushed Tesla Model Y astatine the bottommost of a notorious steep cliff disconnected Highway 1 known arsenic Devil’s Slide.

She past started “screaming” astir her husband’s “intentionality” to termination her and their 2 kids, a 7-year-old girl and 4-year-old son, San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe told the San Francisco Chronicle.

Specifically, Wagstaffe told the Los Angeles Times that Neha Patel said: “He intentionally tried to termination us.”

“She said precise simply this was not an accident,” Wagstaffe told the LA insubstantial of the plunge that officials person called “an implicit miracle” that each 4 survived, with the youngest walking distant with conscionable bruises.

Neha Patel reportedly screamed however her hubby “intentionally tried to termination us.”Facebook / Neha Patel

Neha Patel remains hospitalized and has not been interviewed by prosecutors, Wagstaffe said. Her lawyer has said that she would speech to investigators lone “when she was physically acceptable to bash so.”

Prosecutors besides privation to interrogation her girl — she suffered unspecified superior injuries — but the household has not made her available, helium told the outlets.

The wife’s screams were cardinal to her husband, Dharmesh Patel, 41, being charged with 3 counts of attempted execution Monday, Wagstaffe said.

Officials called it an “absolute miracle” that each 4 survived.San Mateo County Sheriff's Offic

Prosecutors besides person video from a passageway conscionable earlier the clang tract that shows Patel “making a crisp close crook implicit the cliff,” arsenic good arsenic witnesser grounds that helium did not effort to brake, Wagstaffe said.

“We person concluded that the grounds supports the information that helium intentionally drove his conveyance implicit that cliff, thereby evidently endangering not conscionable his woman and 2 children but his ain life,” Wagstaffe said astatine a quality league Monday.

“We bash judge the grounds establishes the indispensable intent to kill,” Wagstaffe told the Chronicle.

Prosecutors person charged Patel with trying to execution his woman and their kids, a 7-year-old girl and 4-year-old son.Facebook / Neha Patel

The operator — a radiologist astatine a Southern California infirmary — has not spoken to investigators since the Jan. 2 crash.

He had been hospitalized with “serious little assemblage injuries” until Friday, erstwhile helium was booked into San Mateo County jail.

Patel appeared Monday successful tribunal successful Redwood City, wherever his attorney, Josh Bentley, told the justice helium was “not definite helium volition marque it to the microphone” due to the fact that of his injuries, the Chronicle noted.

San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said: “We bash judge the grounds establishes the indispensable intent to kill.”AP

His arraignment was adjourned until Feb. 9. Bentley did not instantly respond to an email seeking comment.

Officials don’t judge the Tesla was successful self-drive mode astatine the clip and determination are nary signs of mechanical failure. All 4 of the Patels were strapped into their seats astatine the time.

“We’re looking into what led up to this. Was determination slump oregon thing else?” Wagstaffe said. “It wasn’t conscionable that helium was trying to termination them, helium was trying to termination himself too.”

Investigators are inactive baffled arsenic to wherefore Patel would thrust his Tesla disconnected Devil’s Slide.AP

A neighbour connected the Patels’ tree-lined cul-de-sac successful Pasadena told the LA Times that it was shocking due to the fact that the doc “is a large guy.”

“They’re a beautiful, idyllic family, nary denotation of issues,” Roger Newmark told the paper.

With Post wires