UPDATE: Napa PD: Crash Kills Napa Woman, Injures Two

On March 20, 2011, at approximately 12:19 p.m. , , CalFire and personnel were dispatched to a report of a major injury traffic collision at the intersection of Redwood Road and Linda Vista Avenue.

Personnel arriving on scene observed that a white sedan, occupied by a male and a female, and a white flatbed truck, occupied by a lone male driver, had collided in the intersection.

Both vehicles came to rest in the yard area at the north east corner of the intersection. Fire personnel used specialty tools to extricate the occupants of the sedan.

The male passenger of the sedan was transported to for treatment. The male driver of the white truck was treated at the scene.

The female driver of the white sedan was pronounced deceased at the scene. All three people involved in the collision were Napa residents. Names and the condition of the male passenger are not available at the time of this press release.

Cause of the collision is still under investigation by the Napa Police Department Traffic Accident Reconstruction Team. (Alcohol does not appear to be a factor.) The roadway continues to remain closed at this time. It is anticipated that the roadway will be open at approximately 4 PM today.

Anyone having witnessed the collision is asked to contact Sergeant Paul Paniagua at (707) 257-9438.

Further information will be made available as it becomes available.

From the Napa Police Department.

Original Napa Patch article by , 2:21 p.m.:

The has closed the intersection of Redwood Road and Linda Vista Avenue for investigation of a fatal collision that occurred there in the noon hour.

A Nixle alert issued at 2:11 p.m. indicated that the area would be closed for about three hours.

Napa photographer Robert Peebles, Jr. was at the scene of the crash shortly after 12:30 p.m. and said it appeared a large truck had broadsided a Toyota Avalon.

Peebles said one victim was taken to and another had to be extricated from the wreck.