evilwise
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The brush on that bank was probably just torn out from the retrieval of the car, see how torn up the ground is in the picture of the car as it's pulled out.Yes, I think he either fell asleep at the wheel, swerved to miss a deer, or the crash was drinking-related. If you look at the car being pulled out of the creek, you can tell that the wheels are turned very sharply towards the left. I think he probably flipped the car just by looking at the damage done to the top of it, the rear bumper, and the passenger side.
I think his car was missed for so long because up until recently, the area was much denser. I have attached a collage of photos from Google Street view and one I took at the scene. If you look at the one I took of the scene, you can see the muddy bank where the car was pulled. I think that's where the car was, down that bank. If you look at the Google street view pics, you can see that until today, that area of the creek was pretty hidden by brush.
Attached pics: Kyle's car and pics from the scene that I took.
The condition of the car seems quite strange to me, neither bumper seems damaged and only moderate damage to the passenger side but the roof is torn completely off as well as the hood. Did he drive under something? If I were salacious I might suggest that it's the sort of damage an auto wrecking crane might do to a car picking it up and dropping it off the side of a bridge but I'm not audacious and I'm sure now that they have the car the NHTSA will be able to explain what actually happened once they fully investigate.