FILE - This undated photo provided by the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office shows Dharmesh Patel. Patel a California radiologist accused of trying to kill his family when he drove his Tesla off a cliff along the Northern California coast will receive mental health treatment instead of standing trial, a judge ruled. FILE - In this photo provided by the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office, emergency personnel respond to a vehicle over the side of Highway 1 on Jan.
Patel, who was on a family road trip from Pasadena to the Bay Area, will have to complete a two-year mental health outpatient treatment program at a Bay Area hospital for the charges to be dropped, Superior Court Judge Susan Jakubowski ruled last week, KRON-TV reported. Patel does not pose a danger to the community because he will be under an intensive psychiatric treatment program, as well as monitored with a GPS bracelet equipped with a siren, Bentley said.
Patel’s wife testified that she does not want her husband prosecuted. She said her children miss their father and they want him to return home, the television station reported.