Fatal wreck on Arnold Drive
A motorcyclist was killed early this morning after being struck by a Ford Explorer on Arnold Drive.
The identity of the male victim, 31, has not yet been released by the CHP. He was transported from the scene by helicopter, and pronounced dead upon arrival at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital.
The two-vehicle crash occurred at about 5:50 a.m. Roberino Pio, 66, of Sonoma, was driving eastbound on Walnut Avenue in a 1994 Ford Explorer.
Pio stopped at Arnold, then entered the intersection as the 2006 Honda Shadow passed through. According to the CHP report, the collision occurred when Pio failed to yield, crossed into the southbound lane and broadsided the motorcycle.
The impact pushed the driver and his vehicle onto the west shoulder and into a roadside gully. Pio, the solo occupant of his vehicle, was not injured.
The victim was traveling at approximately the speed limit, said CHP Officer Jaret Paulson.
Any witness to the collision is asked to call the CHP at 253.4906
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This is a tragedy but the CHP report doesn’t make sense, Walnut doesn’t cross Arnold so if the car driver had been East bound he would have been driving away from Arnold.
those reports are always correct; probably the news source misread the CHP report….
CHP doesn’t know left from right.
The CHP report was bit confusing. It stated: “(Truck) was stopped for a stop sign at eastbound Walnut Ave at Arnold.”