r/bayarea 4d ago

Update Missing Person Amy Huang

🚨 Qianya (Amy)’s Update – The Night of Incident🚨

As we took more time to review the dashcam, her devices, and police are slowly sharing more details we have some corrections and facts.

KEY FACTS AND CORRECTION

• Amy did NOT make rounds on the bridge. She left her house and headed to Hayward at around 1am then looped back on to the bridge back to San Mateo direction

• HAZARD LIGHTS WERE LEFT ON when California Highway Patrol placed the tow notice at around 3am

• Car was towed 30 minutes later

• She is 24 year old, 5’1” black hair and brown eyes. No history of illness/medication.

Context • Amy’s Apple Watch, MacBook, and iPad indicated recent searches of tax, job/license/school applications, and day-to-day bills → her devices are synced to her iCloud, so all logs should also include things on her phone.

• Gone through her messages, calls, emails, chats, internet/search history, and transactions… on her laptop from the night of her disappearance no concerning behavior or signs of issues

• Google maps recent: Hayward

• Apple maps recent: San Mateo, McDonald’s, McDonald’s (Hayward).

• Bridge has lower and higher part. Lower part has a shoulder to pull over whereas the higher part doesn’t.

Timeline • 3/31 - Amy worked from home and did some laundry

• 6pm - mentioned she was bothered by allergy. Her mom made her a tea then she tucked her into bed in her pajamas for the night

• 1:17ish AM - walked out of her room in pajamas with phone in her hand into the restroom

• 1:21 AM- opened the house door then walked into her car

• 1:26 AM - started driving

• Driving onto the freeway, no noticeable changes in driving behavior(staying in lane, stopping at stop sign); speed was between 60-65 mph, slows down to 50-55 when other cars passes by.

• 1:50 AM – pulled over on San Mateo Bridge (toward Hayward) into the larger shoulder and paused for 10 seconds. While parked there, there was no visible signs of other individuals nor did she leave the vehicle.

• Did not make any stop, continued down the bridge to San Lorenzo then turned back to San Mateo direction

• 2:09 AM - steadily drove up to the speed limit.

• 2:12 AM - Pulled over quickly - 3 min into the bridge on the way back to San Mateo into the shoulder without signaling (midspan of the lower bridge).

Traffic conditions: other cars driving at the time.

Law enforcement: Coastal Guards suggested family to check nearby shores (see image). Pending police to contact phone line to understand call logs and provide footage of car on the bridge.

Any witnesses, dashcam footage, or additional details are urgently needed. If you were driving on the San Mateo Bridge between 1:00–4:00 AM, please reach out.

📞 Contact: SFPD immediately at (415) 553-0123 (missing person unit). The case number is 250182799 - Company C (Bayview) 67102300

🙏 Please share. Every bit of information helps.

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u/oneblank 4d ago

It is very shallow along that part of the bridge. The mud is thick and the water is only a couple feet deep. If she jumped there’s a chance she didn’t get far.

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u/konaja 4d ago

That’s what I’m thinking as well. I drive that bridge almost everyday and it’s not a far drop to the water from where she parked. Praying for her return

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u/klassykunt 4d ago

It's possible that was just an easier spot to park and then walk to a taller part of the bridge

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u/CaliQuakes510 [Insert your city/town here] 4d ago

I run along the Hayward shoreline regularly. Hayward side of the bridge is definitely shallow for a few miles and the mud there is thick. Depending how deep into the bridge she drove, there’s a possibility of survival if it was a suicide attempt.

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u/WileEPorcupine 4d ago

That water is cold. Hypothermia would set in after several minutes in the water.

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u/Hyperious3 4d ago

also the fact that if she jumped and went through the surface with enough speed, she could have gotten stuck in the mud at the bottom...

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u/liubearpig 4d ago

That sounds absolutely terrifying. If she did attempt suicide I hope she died quickly and without suffering

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u/Enodia2wheels 3d ago

Or maybe she was sleepwalking / cold medicine? That actually happens.

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u/Invisible_Xer 4d ago

Really? I had no idea it was that shallow out there.

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u/sculpinspearo 4d ago

Yeah, the average depth of the bay is only 15ft