The California Highway Patrol reports that intoxication was a factor in last night’s traffic death of 25-year old Glen A. Roe Jr. The Orick man was in the passenger seat of a 2010 Chevrolet Silverado traveling northbound on U.S. Highway 101 just past Westhaven when the driver, Victor Herrera, of McKinleyville, “failed to negotiate” a […]
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Sunday Crash on 101 Leaves 1 Dead, 1 Injured
An Oregon man was killed and his passenger suffered major injuries when the car they were in veered out of control before hitting the guardrail south of Tompkins Hill Road just after noon Sunday in a crash the CHP described as DUI related. According to witnesses, the driver — 45-year-old Johnnie David Evenson of Roseburg, […]
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Fatal Hit and Run in Downtown Eureka
Shirley Hoyt, 56, was crossing U.S. 101 at Fourth and S streets at 11:14 a.m. when she was struck by a Toyota pickup driven by Blue Lake resident Larry Nielsen, also 56. According to a press release from the California Highway Patrol, all other vehicles were stopped at the crosswalk to let Hoyt cross. Nielsen, […]
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Mother, Young Daughters Believed Dead After State Route 96 Crash
A 30-year-old woman and her two young daughters remain missing and are presumed dead after the car they were in plunged approximately 500 feet down an embankment off State Route 96 north of Orleans on Sunday into the Klamath River. Orleans resident Elizabeth Anne Palmer was driving her Toyota Yaris southbound at about 7:20 p.m. […]
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CHP Investigating Fatal Weekend Accidents
The California Highway Patrol is investigation two fatal accidents over the weekend, including the death of a man who was struck Saturday night on Redway Drive after apparently walking in front of a Peterbilt tank truck — the second Southern Humboldt pedestrian death in one week. On Sunday evening, the 83-year-old female driver of a […]
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CHP Seeks Help to Find Hit and Run Driver
UPDATE: The CHP has identified a possible vehicle in the hit and run – a Toyota Prius, a 2010 to 2015 model. In its press release the CHP says “the vehicle will have little to no damage to the front bumper area. The vehicle will have a missing, front, driver side fender wall.” Previously: Benjamin […]
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DA: CHP Officer Acted in Self-Defense
A District Attorney’s Office review found a California Highway Patrol officer acted in self-defense when he fatally shot a man after a routine traffic stop turned into an exchange of gunfire on a Eureka street last November. In a news release today, District Attorney Maggie Fleming said she has spoken with the family of Killian […]
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Court Doc: Mom is Suspect in Fortuna Hit and Run; Showed Signs of Intoxication
An initial CHP investigation indicated the mother of one of two teenage girls who died after a July 12 hit and run crash was the driver and that she showed signs of intoxication shortly after the collision, according to a search warrant affidavit. “At that point, however, there was no evidence establishing her as the […]
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UPDATE: CHP Seeking Persons of Interest in Fortuna Hit and Run
The California Highway Patrol has released the names of two persons of interest in last week’s fatal hit-and-run. Marcia Maelinda Kitchen, mother of one of the deceased, and Joshua Wren Pearlston, her boyfriend, are both being sought for questioning. Kitchen is the registered owner of the Jeep involved in the collision. The CHP say they […]
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Coroner IDs Motorcyclist Killed in Tuesday Crash
The Humboldt County Coroner’s Office has identified the man killed in a motorcycle crash Tuesday afternoon on Alderpoint Road as 21-year-old Austin Brady Williams, of Eureka. Williams was traveling westbound on Alderpoint Road, according to the California Highway Patrol, when for unknown reasons he lost control of his Yamaha in a right-hand curve. Williams slid […]
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Bayside Man Killed in Early Morning Crash
A 37-year-old Bayside man was killed early this morning in a single car accident in McKinleyville. Dahmay Shiday was driving his gray 2006 Subaru westbound on Murray Road in McKinleyville at about 2 a.m. at a high rate of speed when he attempted to turn right onto the northbound U.S. Highway 101 on-ramp and lost […]
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Eureka Woman Released after Thursday’s Manslaughter Arrest, Victim Identified
A 21-year-old Eureka woman arrested last week on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter has been released from jail after no charges were filed against her in the case. The California Highway Patrol arrested Adryan Nicole Pollock shortly after after 6 p.m. on June 16, after she’d allegedly lost control of the 2008 Dodge pickup she was […]