UPPER LAKE, Calif. – The California Highway Patrol on Saturday released some additional details about an early morning solo-vehicle wreck that killed two local men.
The crash at the intersection of Highway 20 and Highway 29 took the lives of a 27-year-old Lakeport man and a 21-year-old man from Kelseyville, the CHP said.
On Saturday, the CHP did not release their names pending family notification.
The Saturday report from CHP Officer Ryan Erickson said that just before 12:15 a.m. the Lakeport man was driving his 2009 Chevy Malibu northbound on Highway 29 at an unknown rate of speed with the Kelseyville man riding as his passenger in the right front seat.
For reasons that Erickson said are yet to be determined, the driver was unable to negotiate the roundabout and allowed his vehicle to run into the roundabout head-on.
The crash caused the Chevrolet to become airborne, and it came to rest on its roof in a walnut orchard just to the north of Highway 20, Erickson said.
Radio reports that came in shortly after the crash indicated that an off-duty paramedic arrived at the scene and found both the driver and passenger trapped and unresponsive in the overturned vehicle.
When Northshore Fire paramedics arrived a short time later, they determined that the two men had died, the CHP said.
Erickson's Saturday report said speed was a factor, but it was not known at that point if drugs or alcohol had contributed to the wreck. Both crash victims were using their seat belts.
The collision remains under investigation by Officer Erickson.
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