Posts Tagged ‘Highway 101’
Written by Humboldt Online Editor on 11 March 2010
Hwy. 199 reopens after slide [Daily Triplicate]
Traffic is rolling on crucial route
Del Norte County’s main connection between U.S. Highway 101 and Interstate 5 is now open after a rock slide caused by winter weather shut it down for a day and a half.

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Written by Humboldt Online Editor on 11 March 2010
A Eureka woman died Tuesday night, hours after her van collided with a truck as she tried to drive across Highway 101 in southern Petaluma, the CHP reported Wednesday.
Lonetta Sayers, 62, and her husband Russell Sayers, 62, Tuesday afternoon had pulled off of the highway at a gas station near Kastania Road, CHP Sgt. Allan Capurro said.

Tags: ca, California, CHP, Eureka, Highway 101, Humboldt, Northern California
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Written by Humboldt Online Editor on 11 March 2010
A Eureka woman died Tuesday night after her car collided with another vehicle on U.S. Highway 101 near Petaluma. According to the California Highway Patrol, Loretta Sayers, 62, attempted to cross the southbound lane of U.

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Written by Humboldt Online Editor on 08 March 2010
A Laytonville man was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving Sunday after an early morning solo-vehicle crash on northbound Highway 101 in Mendocino County.

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Written by Humboldt Online Editor on 08 March 2010
The Ukiah City Council voted unanimously Wednesday to call on the Mendocino County Board of Supervisors to ban new billboards along the Highway 101 corridor that runs through the county and past the city.

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Written by Humboldt Online Editor on 06 March 2010
The sentencing of Ryan Karr was postponed when his attorney asked for time to file a brief seeing a new trial. Karr was convicted of five felony counts of vehicular manslaughter in a 2007 Highway 101 crash that killed five members of a Windsor family.

Tags: attorney, ca, California, felony, Highway 101, Humboldt, Northern California, Trial
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Written by Humboldt Online Editor on 05 March 2010
Highway 101 was closed briefly Wednesday afternoon south of Willits when a big rig jackknifed near Walker Road. No one was injured, but traffic was blocked for nearly an hour while a tow truck attempted to recover the 18-wheeler.

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Written by Humboldt Online Editor on 02 March 2010
Highway 101 south of Dora Creek was blocked for about four hours early Monday morning while authorities cleaned up an overturned 2007 Volvo pulling a trailer full of frozen food.

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Written by Humboldt Online Editor on 02 March 2010
A trailer loaded with frozen food caused the closure of U.S. Highway 101 at times early Monday when the car pulling it crashed just south of Dora Creek.

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Written by Humboldt Online Editor on 01 March 2010

A big rig carrying frozen food bound for deliveries in Humboldt County crashed early Monday, blocking Highway 101 near Leggett, the CHP reported. The rig fell onto its side in the northbound lanes, blocking the highway. The crash was near Leggett and Standish Hickey State Park.

Tags: California, CHP, Highway 101, Humboldt, Humboldt County, Leggett, Mendocino, Northern California
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Written by Humboldt Online Editor on 01 March 2010
Two people were injured in a one-vehicle crash on Saturday near the junction of U.S. Highway 101 and State Route 299, and alcohol is suspected to be a factor.

Tags: Highway 101, Humboldt, Humboldt County, Humboldt County News, Injury, Local
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Written by Humboldt Online Editor on 26 February 2010
A man who died Tuesday in a fiery, head-on crash on Highway 101 near Laytonville has been identified as Bruce Gullett, 46, of Laytonville, the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office said. He was killed when his pickup crossed into the southbound lane and collided with a big rig, bursting into flames, the CHP said.

Tags: California, Highway 101, Humboldt, Laytonville, Mendocino, Mendocino County, Northern California
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Written by Humboldt Online Editor on 26 February 2010
Collision blamed on brakes [Daily Triplicate]
Wreck closes Highway 101
Possible brake failure caused a car to roll from near Third Street onto U.S. Highway 101 and collide with a pickup Wednesday afternoon, injuring the driver of the car, authorities said.
The three-lane section of highway was reduced to one lane for 20 minutes and closed entirely for about 10 minutes while responders cleaned up the area and moved the damaged Ford Tempo and pickup.

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Written by Humboldt Online Editor on 25 February 2010
Two Mendocino County residents died late Tuesday night when the Jeep Wrangler they were in overturned on Highway 101 south of Willits. A 48-year-old woman and 47-year-old man, both from Willits, died in the crash, said California Highway Patrol spokesman Randy England.
Their names were not available this morning.

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Written by Humboldt Online Editor on 25 February 2010
Two Willits residents were killed in a rollover accident on Highway 101 on the Ridgewood Grade Tuesday night, according to the California Highway Patrol.

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