A solo vehicle crash in Woodland killed the passenger and left the driver severely injured early Sunday morning, police said.
Officers responding to the midnight collision at East Gum Avenue east of Bourne Drive arrived to find two people inside the white GMC truck, which had struck a brick sound wall “at a very high rate of speed,” according to Woodland police Sgt. Dallas Hyde.
“There was a male driver and a male passenger in the vehicle, and both were trapped inside and unresponsive,” Hyde said. Medical personnel later pronounced the passenger dead at the scene, while the driver, unconscious but breathing, was transported to the UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento with major injuries.
Yolo County coroner’s officials identified the passenger Monday as Woodland resident Edwin Ortiz Hernandez, 33. Police had not released the driver’s name as of Monday but said the investigation into the crash is ongoing.