(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – CHP Yuba-Sutter is investigating two separate fatal solo vehicle accidents over this past weekend.
Late yesterday morning, officers responded to reports of a pickup overturned in a canal, approximately half filled with water, on a private dirt road near 5780 Vernon Road in Nicolaus. The lone occupant of the truck, 38-year-old Armando Sanchez of Nicolaus was dead. A news release says it is believed the collision occurred sometime Sunday afternoon, after 3:00.
Meanwhile, Saturday evening at around 7:30 in Yuba County, an unidentified 46-year-old Folsom man was killed while driving south on HWY 70, south of McGowan Parkway, at which time he left the roadway for unknown reasons, and rolled over several times down an embankment sustaining fatal injuries. He was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of that crash.