A two-car crash on state Highway 4 near Martinez late Wednesday night left one person dead and another with major injuries, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The crash was reported around 10:40 p.m. on westbound Highway 4 east of Center Avenue and involved a gray Honda Civic and white Toyota Corolla, CHP officials said.
The Honda allegedly crashed into the Toyota, causing both vehicles to go off the roadway and down an embankment, where they crashed into separate trees. The Honda driver was pronounced dead at the scene while the Toyota driver was taken to a hospital.
No one else was in either vehicle, according to the CHP.
The name of the driver who died was not immediately available, and the cause of the crash is under investigation. Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the CHP’s Contra Costa-area office at (925) 646-4980.
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Let’s play… *** LIBERAL LOGIC ***
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Trees on freeways need to be banned because vehicles leaving the paved roadway crash into them. They’re simply too dangerous.
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And that’s today’s installment of… Liberal Logic!!!
It’s also racist to have trees on the freeway. There are fewer trees in minority neighborhoods, and White neighborhoods get to enjoy the shade under a tree on a hot summer day. Therefore, trees are systemically racist.
The trees were not on the freeway they crashed into them because they went off the road down an embankment.
Thank you, Penelope. It was a fatal crash, sounds like the Honda Driver was at fault. How about keeping politics out of it. Turning EVERYTHING into liberal or conservative is getting old.
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Oh Penelope… read my sarcastic post more closely.
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…The trees are in the CalTrans right-of-way.
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So, what was happening before the crash? Speed contest? Someone looking at their phone? I bet this one should never have happened. Condolences to the deceased survivors.
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Those trees serve no purpose whatsoever. They should have been removed years ago. There’s not enough of them to help deaden traffic noise and they certainly don’t beautify the area. All they are is a fire and road hazard.