Officials Seek Driver Seen on Bridge Near Fatal Fall

Investigators probing last week’s deaths of a Moorpark mother and son who fell from a freeway bridge want to speak with the driver of a car seen parked on the bridge the night they died.

Ventura County Sheriff’s Department detectives are looking for the driver of a light-blue, four-door 1995 or 1996 Honda Accord spotted next to the white GMC Jimmy driven by Jacqueline Bickmann.

Bickmann had taken her 4-year-old autistic son, Garett, for a 2 a.m. drive to make him sleepy when a flat tire stranded them on the bridge that links the Ronald Reagan and Moorpark freeways. They somehow fell off the bridge and onto the banks of a stream 100 feet below.

Since then, investigators trying to determine whether the fall was an accident, suicide or the result of foul play have been hampered by a lack of witnesses.

According to the Sheriff’s Department, the Honda was seen parked by the Jimmy at 2:15 a.m. The driver, described as a white male with dark hair, and two passengers are not suspects, according to the Sheriff’s Department. Officials want to interview the occupants of the Honda about what they may have seen that night.

Detectives ask that all three people in the Honda call 654-2340 during daytime hours and ask for Det. Dan Thompson or Sgt. Bob Young.