"When questioned by an officer following his airlift to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, the CHP report states, Mattson claimed he had no recollection of the crash - or the entire drive from his Orangetheory gym in Napa to the site of the wreck, a trip that normally would take about 25 minutes. He didn't regain consciousness until first responders were helping him out of his battered 2025 GMC Sierra after removing the driver's side door."
"The weather was clear, the roadway dry at 2:15 p.m. that day, as reflected in the CHP report. Mattson was not using his cellphone at the time, the CHP investigator determined. In one part of the crash form, investigators checked the box for "Impairment-Physical." According to a CHP collision investigation manual, that can refer to a wide range of maladies including everything from defective eyesight or hearing to paralysis, heart attack, epileptic seizure and diabetic coma."
Ken Mattson struck the private security gate at the base of Castle Road at an estimated 60 mph, plowed through a metal fence, a horse pasture and another fence, then continued about 200 feet down a ravine before smashing into a tree. He claimed no recollection of the crash or the drive from his Orangetheory gym in Napa and did not regain consciousness until first responders removed the driver's side door. He was airlifted to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital. Investigators marked the primary factor unknown, found clear weather and a dry roadway, and determined he was not using his cellphone. Investigators checked "Impairment-Physical," a designation that can cover maladies ranging from defective eyesight or hearing to paralysis, heart attack, epileptic seizure and diabetic coma, and an investigator asked him a series of pre-field sobriety tests.
Read at The Mercury News
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]