UPDATED: Car Drives off Steamboat Road and Lands on the Rocks at Low Tide

At approximately 10:00am on Sunday, Greenwich Police responded to call for an elderly driver who drove off the end of Steamboat Rd and landed on the rocks.

Because it was low tide, no water rescue was needed.

The operator sustained an ankle injury and was transported to Stamford Hospital.

According to Deputy Chief Mark Zuccerella, at about 11:00 am, First Responder Crews were waiting for tow truck with a crane who were anticipate to be on scene within the hour.

Zuccerella said the investigation as to why subject drove off end of roadway was underway.

Update 12:15pm: It appears the car, a Lexus with New York registration plates, went through the wood fence between the pier and the Indian Harbor Yacht Club, not the metal railings along the pier.

A crane came and removed the car and it was towed away just before noon.

Contributed video taken around 11:15am.

Steamboat Road Pier

The pier has been in place since 1896 and was was registered in land records in 1911.

Until 2019, it did not feature railings. After some of the pier crumbled at one corner, that area was fenced off.

Then the Indian Harbor Yacht Club reached out to the Selectmen expressing concern about the condition of the pier, and saying the railing in the safety barrier was not deterring people from climbing over or around. Ultimately the entire pier was closed to the public.

The pier falls to the Department of Public Works because it is considered an extension of the road, and land records refer to the pier as South Greenwich Avenue.

In 2019 the town held a ribbon cutting for the completed work on the pier.