Monday, 26 November 2007 00:45

CHP Busy with Single Car Accidents

California Highway Patrol has been kept busy with single car accidents on local highways. Last week, a 25-year old Camino man driving in fog on Latrobe Road, failed to see the stop sign at Old Sacramento Rd, ran through the stop sign and ran his 2000 Toyota Tacoma into a fence. Then, the notorious Nob Hill turn on Hwy 88 was the site of an accident involving an 18-year old Pioneer woman. She was following a vehicle when that car’s driver braked abruptly. The Pioneer woman braked and lost control of her 1999 Oldsmobile, spun out and collided with a dirt embankment. She complained of pain to her neck and shoulder and was taken by ambulance to Sutter Amador Hospital. And on Ridge Road just west of Hamricks Grade, a deer ran into a 2004 Acura driven by an Ione man. The deer struck the hood and broke the windshield of the Acura, which was traveling about 50 miles per hour. The Ione driver was not injured and the deer apparently fled the scene of the accident.