Eight feet down and 40 feet off the road? Driving too fast, maybe?
Ariel Sanchez, 38, was driving alone in a 1980 Toyota Supra eastbound on Holman Highway east of SFB Morse Drive when the traffic accident occurred.
The CHP said officers were dispatched to a traffic crash on Holman Highway about 7:15 a.m. and arrived on scene to discover the silver Toyota about 40 feet off the roadway and down an 8-foot embankment.
Sanchez’s vehicle had collided with a tree at the bottom of the embankment. Though the driver was wearing a seat belt, he was pronounced dead by medical staff at the scene.