Yesterday, July 7, 2021, California Highway Patrol and medical personnel were dispatched to the Little River Cemetery around 4:30 p.m. after reports emerged of a white truck smashing into the graveyard’s fence, proceeding through the property, and becoming stuck in vegetation. Officer Kiyua Brown of the California Highway Patrol Ukiah office said the accident resulted in the driver’s hospitalization for lacerations, scrapes and bruises.
Officer Brown told us a witness who was driving northbound at time of the collision reported the driver of the white Ford pickup truck plowed through the intersection of Highway 1 and through Little River Cemetery’s chain link fence.
Officer Brown said approximately thirty feet of the Little River Cemetery’s chain link fence was damaged as a result of the collision.
An eyewitness told us they saw a tow truck working to extricate the pickup truck from the dense foliage it came to rest within.
The driver experienced what Officer Brown characterized as “moderate injuries” and he was airlifted to Santa Rosa Memorial.
