Crime & Safety

UPDATE: Fatal Crash on State Highway 128 Caused by Overturned Tanker Truck

A 23-year-old Santa Rosa man was killed.

  A 23-year-old Santa Rosa man was killed Tuesday night when his car
was struck by a tanker loaded with gasoline on state Highway 128 in southern Mendocino County, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Terry Wood, 56, of Santa Rosa, was driving a 2007 Peterbilt truck
with a fuel tanker containing 4,400 gallons of gas west on Highway 128 near the Mendocino-Sonoma county line when the crash happened around 8 p.m., CHP officials said.

Wood lost control of the truck and the trailer overturned, striking a 2005 Toyota that was traveling east on the highway, the CHP said.

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The Toyota driver died at the scene. His name is being withheld
until his next of kin are notified, a Mendocino County coroner's office
spokeswoman said.

The gas tank ruptured, and fuel spilled onto the road and into a
nearby drainage ditch, according to the CHP.

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Environmental health and fire personnel responded to the spill.
The highway was still closed this morning.

By Bay City News Service.


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