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Subject:vanagon crash looked vey ugly
From:gary hradek
Date:Tue, 10 Aug 2004 13:46:57 -0700

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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