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Date:         Tue, 10 Aug 2004 13:46:57 -0700
Reply-To:     gary hradek <hradek@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         gary hradek <hradek@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      vanagon crash looked vey ugly
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Stay awake, stay off the phone and stay alive. Hope it was not someone from the list. sympathies to the wife, gary Newlywed man dies in crash as wife watches

SF COUPLE'S VEHICLES HELD WEDDING GIFTS

By Chuck Carroll

Mercury News

A newly married man was killed Monday night in Mountain View when he crashed into a tree as his wife looked on from a separate vehicle, the highway patrol said today.

Both their vehicles were carrying wedding gifts as the two headed for their new home in San Francisco after dining with relatives in the Santa Cruz County town of Aptos, said Officer Christian Oliver.

The 29-year-old man and his 23-year-old wife spoke on their cell phones as they drove. The man mentioned he was getting sleepy, his wife told police. At about 11:10 p.m. -- not long after he hung up -- his wife watched as his gold 1985 Volkswagen Vanagon drift to the left lane of northbound Highway 85 in Mountain View, then swerve to the right and crash into a tree south of the El Camino Real ramp.

The man, whose name was being withheld this morning until relatives could be notified, was pronounced dead at the scene. No one else was injured in the crash. Alcohol did not appear to be a factor, Oliver said, although that would be routinely investigated.

Oliver said the couple wed last week in Georgia and had just returned to California after their honeymoon.

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