By Donna Jones
Santa Cruz Sentinel
A man died just after 5 p.m. Monday when his Honda sedan was
broadsided by a Buick Roadmaster on Highway 129 just west of the
Chittenden Pass trestle, according to the California Highway
Patrol.
The elderly couple in the Buick were critically injured in the
crash, which happened about 100 yards west of a cross and flowers
marking the spot of another fatal accident on the rural highway. As
of Monday, though, they both had been upgraded to fair condition at
Regional Medical Center of San Jose, according to a spokeswoman
there.
By Donna Jones
Santa Cruz Sentinel
A man died just after 5 p.m. Monday when his Honda sedan was broadsided by a Buick Roadmaster on Highway 129 just west of the Chittenden Pass trestle, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The elderly couple in the Buick were critically injured in the crash, which happened about 100 yards west of a cross and flowers marking the spot of another fatal accident on the rural highway. As of Monday, though, they both had been upgraded to fair condition at Regional Medical Center of San Jose, according to a spokeswoman there.
CHP officer Sarah Jackson said the Monday accident is under investigation, but that the Buick’s driver, James Libby, 84, of Hollister, said he was traveling east when a silver Honda heading west crossed the double yellow line in front of him.
Libby was unable to stop and broadsided the passenger side of the Honda, Jackson said. The force of the collision ripped the Honda in half, sending the engine compartment and dashboard into an embankment next to the westbound lane while the back end crumpled between the Buick and the embankment on the opposite side of the highway.
