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PACIFICA — One man was killed and two people injured in a wrong-way crash on Highway 1 early Thursday morning, according to California Highway Patrol.
Just after 3 a.m., a Dodge Charger entered the southbound lanes of Highway 1 at Manor Drive going the wrong direction and collided with a Mercedes SUV traveling in the fast lane, said CHP Officer Bert Diaz.
The Charger driver, a man between 25 and 30, was pronounced dead on scene when officers arrived. A woman around the same age in the passenger seat was transported to the hospital for unknown injuries, along with the driver of the Mercedes, a man in his 50s.
It’s not yet clear if drugs or alcohol played a role in the crash, Diaz said.
By about 11 a.m., Thursday, the southbound lanes of Highway 1 at Manor Drive had reopened after CHP cleared the scene.
The crash is part of a larger troubling trend for CHP, which counted 25 wrong-way collisions counted from the start of 2019 through September, when numbers were most recently available.
In one high-profile case in October, four people were killed when 34-year-old Hillsborough resident Emilie Ross drove her Volkswagen head-on into a taxi cab as she traveled the wrong way on northbound Highway 101 near Candlestick Point.
