Twenty-Year-Old Dead in Hwy 36 Crash
Press release from the California Highway Patrol:
On 06/23/2019, at approximately 1554 hours, Humboldt Area CHP responded to a report of a vehicle collision on SR-36, west of Dinsmore. Upon arrival officers determined a 1988 Honda sedan had been involved in a head-on collision with a 2018 Dodge Pickup driven by 44 year old Nate Howe of Eureka. While traveling eastbound on SR-36 the driver of the Honda allowed it to drift on to the shoulder before traveling back across the road and into the oncoming lane where it collided with the Dodge.
Emergency medical personnel responded to the scene and provided aid to the involved parties, however the driver of the Honda did not survive his injuries and was pronounced deceased.
Identification of the driver of the Honda is pending notification of next of kin.
Excessive speed and alcohol impairment, on the part of the Honda driver, are believed to have been a factor in this collision.
The California Highway Patrol Humboldt Area is continuing its investigation into this collision and is asking anyone with additional information to contact the Humboldt Area CHP Office at 707-822-5981 or to send an email to [email protected].
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Driving while distracted or under the influence is a recipe for disaster. So sorry for the families involved.
Plus tackling a road like 36 and being an inexperienced driver of only 4 years.
Absolutely agreed!!!
I agree with you 100% Dot. Highway 36 is a dangerous road at best, leaving very little room for error, and has taken many lives. So very sorry for the families involved, sad.
Drink. Drive. Die.
These accidents aren’t going away until we, as a society, start treating alcohol consumption as a problem.
It’s not that it’s not consider a problem as much as it’s a schizophrenic attitude where drinking is celebrated as neccessary to have a good time and a rite of passage while simultaneously lecturing about the evils of alcohol fueled accidents and violence. As if somehow a drunk is going to be exercising good judgement about either driving or what’s a good time. It’s sad to lose someone for this.
Too often it’s drink drive kill.
A young woman from Hoopa is looking at 30 years in prison for killing multiple people while driving drunk.
Park your car. Give someone your keys. It’s better to be late than dead.
To be clear, the woman was from Shasta County. The car she hit was full of college students from Hoopa. https://kymkemp.com/2019/06/21/woman-convicted-of-second-degree-murder-for-killing-two-hoopa-girls-and-injuring-three-other-hoopa-youth-while-dui/
Yeah, but the type of people who drink and drive aren’t going to give other people a second thought. Pointing out that they’ll kill themselves is about the only thing they might care about.
Eh, most probably won’t care, or even hear those words. The drunk usually walks away from an accident before the sober victim does. Afterwards, saying, “That killed my buzz. Ah, man, look at my car, bummer. Wait, why am I in trouble?!!”
Our laws concerning drunk driving are also a sad bitter joke. How many people are out there driving right now with multiple DUI’s under their belt?
And even if such multiple DUI drivers get their license suspended, they drive anyway. If caught again, not much happens.
You only get one chance, make it the right choice. Real life doesn’t have a respawn-reset button.
R.I.P. child, and may your death be a strong awakening to all who think they’re immortal.
My condolences to the loved ones.
Special prayers of comfort to the driver who had to be a part of this terrible and painful tragedy. (and to the rescue teams who also will have nightmare flashbacks for a long time to come).
Thanks STAR! Please donate to STAR if you drive 36 because CHP doesn’t do shit and they may have to save your life when some a-hole comes around a corner at 70mph in your lane.
“We are the only ambulance service out in this area!”
http://www.sthsclinic.org/star_summary-page.html
Back in 1999, I was serving a six month sentence for driving on a suspended license. The DA had asked for three years.
While I was serving my sentence, three people came in, charged with causing the death of another person, by their actions.
One was charged with killing someone else while driving drunk; another was charged with causing the death of a child in their care, and the third was charged with causing the death of their wife during sex ( a consensual choking).
They received one, two, and three years in prison.
I told everyone in the unit with me: “You know what that tells me? Don’t ride to work with me, because if I get pulled over, I’m offing your ass – I’ll do less time!”
I don’t know what that has to do with this, but there it is, there.
“Back in 1999, I was serving a six month sentence for driving on a suspended license.”
[edit] Suspended license while doing something else that earned you the six months.
Hopefully the next big earthquake swallows up the road and creates a forever landslide just east of Larabee Valley, forever shutting down the road rage death trap that is Highway 36.
I try to avoid ever driving on this beautiful scenic highway because of the horrendous, stupefying, ignorant, impatient, tweaking, coke-snorting, drunks, or genuinely straight edge a**holes plying the roads at criminally insane speeds in their growdozers.
Stay off the 36 as if your life depended on it, because it actually does!
It aw’ight, just take the back road into ruth from sohum and chillax east from there.
Oh yeah that’s the only kind of people who live out here…. not families, not hard working generations who have made this community what it is, just tweakers…but hey maybe if you think that what you stated is the only type of people that live out here then don’t come out here.
Also, there are pulls offs for you to use so these impatient growdozers can pass you instead of trying to kill you with their excessive speed.