Fatal Crash Near Laytonville This Morning
Press release from the California Highway Patrol:
On March 29, 2016, at approximately 3:00 AM, A 2016 Hyundai sedan driven by a male, whose name is currently being withheld pending notification of next of kin, was traveling northbound on US-101, north of the Laytonville-Sherwood Road. For reasons still under investigation, the driver allowed the sedan to drift onto the right shoulder. The vehicle then briefly collided with the east guardrail before descending an embankment where it overturned onto its roof and collided with a tree. The driver, and only occupant of the vehicle, sustained fatal injuries as a result of the collision and was pronounced deceased at the scene.
Agencies on scene were Cal-Trans, Cal-Fire, Laytonville Volunteer Fire, Mendocino County Sheriff, and CHP.
This collision remains under investigation by the California Highway Patrol. Whether or not drugs or alcohol were a factor in this collision is also being investigated.
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We have had way more than our share of tragic deaths in our area lately. Please, people be careful! My thoughts and prayers are with this man’s family.
Probably ice on the roads .
A good possibility, as cold as the morning was
Frost in Benbow this morning.
So tragic. R.I.P. Dear Soul.
May have dosed off!
Has the name of this person been released Kym? If so would you please update this feed. I just heard a friend died in an accident a few days ago and I’m wondering if this is the accident. Thanks.
I’m sorry. I don’t know the name of the deceased at this time.