Head-on crash leaves one dead
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Elderly Calexico man killed in collision - passenger of second car airlifted to hospital
IMPERIAL COUNTY, Calif. (KYMA, KECY) - A head-on crash on State Route 98 killed an elderly man, and sent the passenger in a second car to the hospital in a medevac helicopter.
It happened just before noon Monday just east of Holdridge Road, just a short distance from Bond s Corner. The California Highway Patrol (CHP) says a man from Campo, California was heading eastbound when he allowed his Lincoln to drift into the westbound lane, and into the path of an oncoming Pontiac. Both drivers tried to avoid the collision, but the vehicles crashed head-on.
EL CENTRO â An 83-year-man died Calexico man died around midday Monday when his vehicle was met head-on in a collision on State Route 98.
California Highway Patrol said the victim was driving a 2002 Pontiac westbound on SR 98 east of Holdridge Road at an unknown speed. Meanwhile, a 2005 Lincoln driven by a man CBP identified as Detron Williams, 41, of Campo, was approaching eastbound, also at an unknown speed.
CBP reported that for reasons still unknown, Williams allowed the Lincoln to drift into the westbound lane of 98. Both he and the Pontiac driver attempted unsuccessfully to take evasive action. They wound up colliding head-on. The Lincoln overturned.
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