At 10:48 am Saturday, a rollover crash at Byron Highway and Camino Diablo left two people dead and 4 others injured.
According to radio traffic, a pickup truck overturned off the roadway with as many as seven people trapped in the vehicle.
Engine 59 arrived on scene of a two vehicle accident with both vehicles off the roadway and one vehicle on its roof and numerous patients laying on the ground.
At around 11:05 am, a East Contra Costa Fire Protection District Battalion Chief reported 1 fatal, 3 patients to be airlifted and 2 patients by ground.
By 11:12 am, he updated the incident to have 2 fatalities with 1 pediatric patient and 1 adult female to be transported by air ambulance to local hospital with AMR providing ground transport for 2 additional patients.
By 11:40 am, a Contra Costa County Sheriff Sergeant and the Coroner were on scene and officially pronounced two patients dead.
By 11:59, both fatal patients had been extricated from the scene and ECCFPD turned over the incident to the California Highway Patrol and Contra Costa County Sheriff.
All helicopters are landing at the Byron Airport.
Update
The driver, a passenger and two kids survived. Two other adults did not. By 1:50 pm, CHP cancelled its SIG Alert and re-opened the road.
In total, three patients were flown by medical helicopter, one patient by ground John Muir Trauma Center in Walnut Creek and two were pronounced DOA at the scene said ECCFPD Chief Hugh Henderson.
Henderson also said a Tier 1 Multi-Casualty Incident was declared and the accident is being investigated by the California Highway Patrol.l
The deceased were identified as an 89-year old woman and 40-year old man, both of whom were riding in the same vehicle.
Detail Information
12:11 PM 24 [63] ^***ISSUE SIGALERT*** BYRON HWY JSO HOT SPRINGS ROAD IS CLOSED DUE TO TRAFFIC COLLISION UNK ETO
11:54 AM 23 [60] A19-405A REQ SIGALERT // UNK ETO
11:23 AM 22 [52] BUT CO FIRE WAS UNABLE TO INDICATE WHAT THAT MEANS
11:16 AM 21 [50] 1039 STOCKTON CHP/LOG 00923/WILL SEND UNIT
11:16 AM 20 [49] [Rotation Request Comment] 1039 AMERICAN TOW 800-794-8122 // SD 215 ***** 2 EVIDENCE TOWS
11:14 AM 19 [45] A19-405A START 2 1185 EVIDENCE
11:13 AM 18 [44] A19-405A START EVIDENCE TOW
11:10 AM 17 [39] 1039 COCO COUNTY CORONER VIA COCO SO/THEY COPY 405A CELL AND NAME THEY WILL 1021 HIM
11:05 AM 16 [35] A19-405A NEED UNIT TO BYRON HOT SPRINGS CAFE TURN ONTO BYRON HOT SPRINGS RD
11:05 AM 15 [34] A19-405A HAVE DUBLIN GO TO TULLY RD LOOPS BACK TO BYRON NEAR THE AIRPORT
11:03 AM 14 [32] A19-405A RDWY SHUT DOWN
11:02 AM 13 [30] 1039 COCO SO
10:58 AM 12 [26] A19-403A INQ IF CLOSURE NEEDED // 405 EVERYTHING OFF THE RDWY // ONCE EMERG PERSONEL GOES 97 THEY WILL BE 1125 // 403 COPIES ALL
10:56 AM 11 [23] COCO FD ADV ALREADY 1039 HELO
10:54 AM 10 [22] 1039 COCO FD
10:54 AM 9 [21] A19-405A START LIFE FLIGHT
10:53 AM 8 [19] 1039 FIRE
10:52 AM 7 [17] A19-405A ADV FIRE POSSIBLY NEAR HOT SPRINGS
10:49 AM 6 [13] [Appended, 10:50:33] [4] ANOTHER PRTY INSIDE VEH
10:49 AM 5 [12] [Appended, 10:50:33] [3] XRAY and CHILD OO VEH
10:48 AM 4 [6] 1039 1141
10:48 AM 3 [5] PER RP THEY HAVE GOTTEN 1 CHILD OO VEH / BUT SEVERAL KIDS AND LOOKS LIKE THE MOTHER STILL IN THE TRUCK
10:46 AM 2 [2] SEVERAL PEOPLE STILL IN THE VEH
10:46 AM 1 [1] SIL TKPK ON ITS ROOF TO RT SIDE OF THE RD
3 comments
It is sad that no one seems to care about the rate of speed vehicles travel down Byron highway even though the area. Where the accident happened today. I am so sorry about the families that have to try to move on without their loved ones around to share all the future memories that they would have had. Even though there was a loss of 2 lives today , there will still be NO presence of law enforcement doing what they get paid to do.
How dare you say that they are not present out there. If you knew the details of this crash maybe you would think before speaking such non sense. Were you the investigating officer? Were you on scene? How do you know speed was a factor in this crash? You know people just make stupid choices and this also causes accidents? It IS NOT law enforcement’s fault that this occurred and the response time was incredible. Don’t be so quick to blame others for peoples actions. I know exactly what happen and you should be ashamed to blame those that dedicate their lives and their families that have to deal with the after math of such a tragic incident.
I totally agree with “M Smith” on this unfortunate event. It’s pretty sad that people make judgement upon others when they don’t know the full facts. Those are the kind of people that start up and participate on deminstrations through out our Country. SAD!
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