(KRON) — Four lives were lost across three separate crashes in Sonoma County on Saturday, according to the California Highway Patrol.
A Nissan Rogue with four occupants was being driven on Highway 1 near Salt Point State Park around 1:50 p.m. when authorities said the driver lost control of the car. The Nissan hit a tree on the right side of the highway before overturning down an embankment and coming to a rest on its roof. A man who was a passenger in the car was pronounced deceased at the scene. The driver and two other passengers were hospitalized with minor injuries.
CHP responded to another solo-vehicle collision around 4:14 p.m. on Highway 101 in Santa Rosa, north of Todd Road. An elderly man driving a Mercedes with a female passenger veered off the highway and struck a tree, according to authorities. The man was pronounced deceased at the scene and the passenger later succumbed to her injuries at the hospital.
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At 7:14 p.m., CHP was alerted to a collision involving a motorcyclist on Porter Creek Road near Postwood Lane. A man riding a Harley-Davidson illegally passed several vehicles over double yellow lines at a high rate of speed, according to investigators, before returning to the eastbound lane where he encountered a stopped Toyota truck waiting to make a left turn. The motorcyclist crashed into the rear of the truck and sustained fatal injuries.
Officials did not release the identities of the deceased pending notification of next of kin…