(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – Follow-up to the traffic incident KUBA reported on yesterday morning in the Yuba County foothills, that had Willow Glen Road closed for several hours near Frenchtown.

CHP Yuba-Sutter’s Public Information Officer reports a Yuba County deputy was first on scene at 5:14 when a 911 call was made by a commuter reporting a car down an embankment ,estimated at 150 feet,  one-and-a-quarter miles south of Pine Ridge Road. The deputy negotiated the steep decline and found the driver had been ejected and killed.

A foot search and CHP helicopter H-20 search located no other victims.

The driver killed is a 39-year-old Walnut Creek man whose name has not been released at this time.