Man is killed when golf cart plunges off cliff
A 65-year-old golfer died Tuesday after his golf cart plunged 75 feet off a cliff and landed on a road below, authorities said.
Edwin Payne teed off with three friends on the second hole of the course at Pala Mesa Golf Resort in northern San Diego County about 10 a.m. and then got into his cart.
It veered off the concrete pathway, traveled down a 25-foot embankment and went over the cliff, California Highway Patrol spokesman Tom Kerns said.
Payne, a recently retired real estate agent from Irvine, was ejected shortly before the cart hit the road and died on impact, Kerns said.
No one else was involved in the incident.
Investigators will inspect the golf cart for mechanical failures, Kerns said.
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