Samoa Youth Dies in Accident Near Crescent City

Press release provided by the California Highway Patrol (CHP):

CHP

On May 20, 2015 at approximately 1535 hours, Crescent City Area CHP Officers responded to a fatal collision on US 101 at mile post 18.69. [Walter Ray Lindstrom, age 20, of Samoa]

was driving [a 1998 Honda] southbound on US-101 in wet roadway conditions. [He] attempted to pass traffic over solid double yellow lines at a high rate of speed in a left curve in the roadway. Due to his unsafe speed for conditions, [He] lost control of his vehicle and allowed it to cross the northbound lanes of traffic and leave the roadway where it collided with a tree. [Lindstrom] was pronounced deceased at the scene. The driver was wearing a seatbelt at the time of the collision and it is unknown whether or not drugs or alcohol were a factor in this collision .

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dreaddyDan
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dreaddyDan
8 years ago

R.I.P.
Live fast, die.
Very sad, young male drivers just don’t
Understand how fast it can be over.
May God have mercy on your soul, farewell.