Authorities believe the driver who died after veering off a Castro Valley road Friday afternoon may have suffered a medical emergency before crashing.
The California Highway Patrol responded to 34400 Palomares Road at around 3 p.m., according to CHP logs, after a nearby homeowner called to report the white Toyota Tacoma pickup truck overturned on the side of the road. The two-lane road is in a rural area near Sunol Ridge.
An Alameda County coroner was called to the area at 4 p.m. and the person was declared deceased. No information about the driver’s identity was immediately available…