One killed, others injured in multiple crashes on Benicia-Martinez bridge

A pair of unrelated car crashes — including one fatal — on the Benicia-Martinez Bridge snarled traffic for two hours Tuesday morning, authorities said.

The first crash — involving four vehicles just north of the Marina Vista exit — took place about 7:51 a.m., resulting in two people getting taken to a local hospital with minor injuries.

Seven minutes later and a quarter mile further north on the bridge, a 22-year-old motorcyclist “went down,” a spokesman from the California Highway Patrol said. His motorcycle hit a vehicle in one lane, and he was thrown into an adjoining lane and run over by another vehicle…

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