She used a find-my-phone application Saturday to trace her husband to a patch of dirt in San Mateo, where investigators believe his Mercedes fell some 30 feet off an elevated ramp at the interchange of Highway 101 and Highway 92 and lay crushed by the fall, according to the California Highway Patrol. Jayesh Patel, 49, had been reported missing by his wife to local police after he didn’t come home Friday night, said Officer Art Montiel, a spokesman for the CHP’s Redwood City division. Using the phone app, Patel’s wife traced her husband’s phone to the highway interchange, where she came across the crumpled car and alerted authorities around noon Saturday, Montiel said. She was at the scene when officers arrived, Montiel said. The sedan was found right-side-up, but was so crushed that emergency responders used the Jaws of Life to tear off the doors and extract the driver’s body, Montiel said. It’s not clear what caused Patel, who was driving on the eastbound Highway 92 connector ramp to northbound Highway 101, to lose control of the Mercedes, slamming into the concrete barrier lining the elevated ramp hard enough to vault the car over it, Montiel said. Investigators believe the crash occurred sometime after 10 p.m. Friday — and perhaps early Saturday morning — but no one came across the crash until Patel’s wife did. What Does $2,700 Rent You In San Francisco, Today?Curious about just how far a housing dollar travels in San Francisco?
– A California woman's phone led her to her missing husband's body before the authorities could find him. The San Francisco Chronicle reports the unnamed woman reported her husband, 49-year-old Jayesh Patel, missing when he didn't come home Friday. Using a find-my-phone app, Patel's wife traced him to a field behind a building in San Mateo where she found his Mercedes about noon Saturday, according to the Mercury News. It was crushed with Patel inside. She called the police, and authorities had to use the jaws of life to extract Patel from the car. He was pronounced dead at the scene, CBS San Francisco reports. Authorities say Patel's car fell 30 feet off a highway interchange sometime after 10pm Friday. It's unclear what caused the crash; the Mercedes had to have hit a concrete barrier hard enough to jump it. It's also unclear whether drugs or alcohol played a part. Patel's car was sitting in the field for up to 14 hours before his wife found it. (This man placed a 911 call three years ago—then vanished.)