Fatal crash in Alpine County
Submitted by paula on Tue, 07/25/2017 - 12:21pm
A 62-year-old man from Woodacre, Calif. died at the scene of a single car crash on State Route 88 Sunday evening.
According to the California Highway Patrol, David Martin was driving a 2001 BMW westbound on SR-88 west of the Carson River Bridge at an unknown speed when his car drifted off the roadway at a curve. He attempted to correct the vehicle's direction with an abrupt turn of the wheel which caused him to loose control. Martin and his car athen traveled off the dirt shoulder, collided with a raised rock embankment and overturned.
Martin was pronounced deceased at the scene. A toxicology report is being conducted.
(This story was updated with the victim's name upon notification of family.)
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