A driver was killed Monday when his car ran into a trailer that had been knocked loose from a pickup moments earlier on a Watsonville road, the California Highway Patrol said.
The two collisions occurred around 6:30 a.m. on Highway 129 (Riverside Drive) east of Harvest Drive.
In the first, two pickup trucks — a 2006 Toyota Tacoma and a 2019 Ford F-650 — collided in the westbound lanes. Both vehicles overturned, and the Ford’s flatbed utility trailer became detached and ended up in the eastbound lanes.
The trailer was then struck by an eastbound Chevrolet Malibu driven by a 59-year-old Marina man. He died in the crash.
The road was closed until shortly after 1 p.m.
It was the third fatal crash in the Watsonville area in just over a week.
• On Saturday, Nov. 27, a 25-year-old Watsonville man was killed in an apparent hit-and-run crash while he was bicycling on Green Valley Road in the community of Amesti, the CHP said. About 90 minutes later, the suspect vehicle was found, and its alleged driver, a 55-year-old Watsonville man, was arrested.
• On Saturday, Nov. 20, a 20-year-old Salinas man was killed in a head-on crash on the Riverside Drive overpass at Highway 1. The two people in the other vehicle suffered moderate injuries.
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