SAN FRANCISCO, CA : Man in fatal California creek crash identified on Monday, January 9th 2017
San Francisco, California
Authorities have identified a man who died after his car crashed into a creek in Marin County.
The Marin Independent Journal reports the driver was identified as 20-year-old Jose Hernandez.
Marin County fire battalion chief Bret McTigue says the wreckage was discovered Monday morning in the Hicks Valley Area.
California Highway Patrol Officer Andrew Barclay says Hernandez lost control of his car at the beginning of a curve, crashed into a cement pillar, went down an embankment and landed in the creek.
He says three of car's tires were bald and that unsafe speed and slick roads might have been factors in the crash.
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Man in fatal California creek crash identified