Two-vehicle crash in Martinez leaves man dead, woman injured
A man was killed Tuesday on a Martinez road when a woman in another car crossed into incoming traffic and hit his vehicle, police said.
The crash happened on Cummings Skyway just north of Highway 4 around 10:45 a.m., said Officer Sean Wilkenfeld, a California Highway Patrol spokesman. The road remained closed as of noon Tuesday, and there was no estimated time for it to reopen.
The woman, driving a Ford sedan, appeared to have drifted off the road and onto a dirt shoulder, then overcorrected and crossed into traffic moving in the opposite direction, Wilkenfeld said. The man, driving a Nissan Xterra, collided with the passenger side of the Ford.
The man, who was not immediately identified, was pronounced dead at the scene.