Wild moment car drives onto Venice Pier sparking panic among beachgoers
Metro Wild moment car drives onto Venice Pier sparking panic among beachgoers By Sheetal Banchariya Published Aug. Add The California Post on Google A typical Sunday night at the Venice Pier turned into a manic scene as a car plowed through the pedestrian walkway, sending tourists and locals sprinting for their lives. Harrowing video of the incident shows the moment the woman driver accelerated the car down the pier — a space reserved for foot traffic — with onlookers scrambling to dodge the speeding vehicle.
- ▪Metro Wild moment car drives onto Venice Pier sparking panic among beachgoers By Sheetal Banchariya Published Aug.
- ▪Add The California Post on Google A typical Sunday night at the Venice Pier turned into a manic scene as a car plowed through the pedestrian walkway, sending tourists and locals sprinting for their lives.
- ▪Harrowing video of the incident shows the moment the woman driver accelerated the car down the pier — a space reserved for foot traffic — with onlookers scrambling to dodge the speeding vehicle.
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| Original publisher | California Post |
| Canonical URL | https://nypost.com/2026/08/03/us-news/car-drives-onto-venice-pier-walkway-in-terrifying-video/ |
| Publication time | Mon, 03 Aug 2026 17:05:16 -0400 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-03T21:22:34.335Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-03T21:22:34.335Z |
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| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
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| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
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| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Metro Wild moment car drives onto Venice Pier sparking panic among beachgoers By Sheetal Banchariya Published Aug. 3, 2026, 5:05 p.m. ET (function() { var overlay = document.getElementById("nyp-player-lcp-overlay"); if (!overlay) { return; } function hideOverlay() { overlay.remove(); } function afterDCL() { requestAnimationFrame(hideOverlay); } if (document.readyState === "loading") { document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", afterDCL, { once: true }); } else { afterDCL(); } })(); See more of our coverage in your search results. Add The California Post on Google A typical Sunday night at the Venice Pier turned into a manic scene as a car plowed through the pedestrian walkway, sending tourists and locals sprinting for their lives.
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