Crime & Safety
Sebastopol Man Killed in Solo Vehicle Crash East of Jenner
Car missed a curve and went off the road Sunday morning.
A driver was killed early Sunday when he missed a curve and went off the road east of Jenner in unincorporated Sonoma County, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The driver, a 30-year-old Sebastopol resident, was driving west on state Highway 116 in a 2004 Toyota Tacoma around 1 a.m. when he failed to make a right-hand curve around half a mile east of state Highway 1, according to the CHP.
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Traveling at a high rate of speed, the driver went off the road's southern edge and struck a metal guardrail and wooden utility pole. The Toyota overturned, then reentered the roadway, crossed both lanes and struck a dirt embankment on the northern side.
The driver was not wearing a seatbelt and was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the CHP.
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The crash remains under investigation, and it is not clear if
drugs or alcohol were a factor.
By Bay City News Service.
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