Humboldt has one of the highest vehicle fatality rates in the country. Is it ... - North Coast Journal
25, shortly before noon, and Jason Dewayne Fleming, 41, was driving along Lower Pacific Drive, not far from his Shelter Cove home. For reasons that are still under investigation, Fleming lost control of the car and crashed through a wooden fence before careening down a steep bluff, coming to rest about 20 feet down. About six weeks earlier, on July 8, two U. S. Forest Service firefighters, Dale Alexander Mendes and Jason Fritz Price, left work in Salyer. Mendes, 29, and Price, 20, were both dead inside. Six days before Mendes and Price got in that SUV, 23-year-old Daniel Jeffrey Pudlicki was pronounced dead at Redding's Mercy Hospital. Twelve days before Pudlicki's death, at about 5 p. m. on June 20, a 2007 Nissan Altima travelling south on U. S. Highway 101 near Myers Flat crashed into a dirt embankment and flipped several times. A passenger in the car — 32-year-old Stephanie Marie Vandelinder — wasn't wearing a seatbelt and died at the scene. At about 1:30 a. m. the day before, 31-year old Bridgette Bailey was alone in her 1996 Ford sedan, speeding northbound on U. S. Highway 101 in the safety. Source: www.northcoastjournal.com
