A collision on Mount St. Helena Saturday night sent a Santa Rosa woman to Queen of the Valley Medical Center and a Lassen County man to the Napa County Department of Corrections.
California Highway Patrol Officer Garret Ray said the crash took place on Highway 29 north of Tubbs Lane at about 9:30 p.m. when a 1998 Dodge Dakota pickup truck driven by 50-year-old Mark Carpenter of Herlong crossed the double yellow center lines and struck a 1997 Nissan Quest head-on.
The Nissan driver, 51-year-old Sasan Barrow, was taken to the Queen as a precaution after suffering minor injuries and Carpenter was arrested on suspicion of DUI, Ray said.
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In the meantime, folks, please don't drink and drive or do drugs and drive. Get a designated driver and/or arrange for alternate transportation on Halloween. Glad to see that nobody was killed or seriously hurt in this accident. It could have been otherwise, as it so often is.
Why do some folks comply to the law paying for the blue tooth and or ear pieces yet some just ignore? Seems there is no enforcement. I would like to know just how many tickets have been given out and why there isn't more news about it.... My job takes me to travel our roads all day, so many drivers busy on their phones. Stop lights turn green yet they sit playing on their phones until someone beeps at them. Some going through lights while they stare at their phone. It makes me crazy seeing all the folks driving about chatting as if they don't even know or care that they are endangering all and breaking the law. I know there are emergencies, but every where I go folks are on their phones. At the grocery store, one hand on the cart and the other with the phone to their ear going up and down the isles, even at check out counter, she never stopped talking...While I was at lunch yesterday a guy talking all through the entire lunch, and when I was at the clothing store...wow, what is the emergency? These folks look rediculous....Shoot what did we do, how did we get along without cell phones for so many years? People don't even consider others anymore and go on with their rude behavior. Steven, cell phones are not dangerous, they have their uses, it is the ignorant user that is dangerous. Your point is well taken though!