Date:         Tue, 10 Aug 2004 15:12:47 -0700
Reply-To:     Aristotle Sagan <killer_jupiter@HOTMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Aristotle Sagan <killer_jupiter@HOTMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: vanagon crash looked vey ugly
Comments: To: gary hradek <hradek@YAHOO.COM>
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That's a crappy piece of road to start with. Old construction, narrow lanes,
worn pavement. It's also a nice hike from Aptos to San Fran. Lots of twisty
turny roads (HW17), crazed idjits. I've done it in the vanagon, but it's not
pleasant. I wouldn't want to be doing it tired.

My condolences to the family.

tim in san jose


----- Original Message -----
From: "gary hradek" <hradek@YAHOO.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 1:46 PM
Subject: vanagon crash looked vey ugly


> 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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