Updated, Friday. Coroner's office identified the victim in the collision as Linden Hynes, 50, of Richmond, Bay City News Service reported.
A woman and her dog were killed in a head-on crash on a curve along San Pablo Dam Road Wednesday between Orinda and El Sobrante.
The accident happened at 12:09 p.m. when the driver of a white Chevy Trailblazer in the northbound lane crossed over into the southbound lane and struck a gray Volkswagen Passat headed south, reported CHP Sgt. Ted White at the scene. The mangled gray car came to rest about 10 feet off the road, to the east, just below the dam that holds back San Pablo Reservoir.
The driver of the car, a Richmond woman, was killed. The driver of the Trailblazer, an El Sobrante resident in his twenties, was taken to John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek with a broken arm, broken wrist and head contusions, according to CHP Officer John Fransen.
San Pablo Road was blocked in both directions for about four miles — at Castro Ranch Road on the El Sobrante side and back at Wildcat Canyon Road on the Orinda side. It was reopened around 3 p.m. Wednesday.
The cause of the crash is under investigation. Both drivers were wearing seatbelts, Fransen said.
Bay City News Service contributed to this report.
I drive this road often and unlike many of the other posters I do not see the passing and fast driving since the paving and double yellow stripping, More often then not I notice the person that can't seem to get above 35-40 in a 50 mph zone. I hate the fact that so many people dump their trash loads on the side of the road, I sure do wish that El Sobronte would do something to catch these people.
HNY.
The spot of the accident was about 2/3rds of the way down the hill and the point where San Pablo Dam Road opens up to 2 lanes (about a third of the mile away). If the driver was crossing over the lane, that would be foolish as the road opens up at the bottom of that hill. I'm guessing one of the two drivers got distracted and drifted across the line. There was a car following the SUV, about 200 ft back and hopefully they could fill in the blanks for the police.