Coroner IDs Victim In Friday Crash Near Petaluma

The Sonoma County coroner’s office has identified a man who died in a crash between a Honda and a trailer near Petaluma on Friday night as 32-year-old Dwayne Usher of Vallejo.

Usher was driving a Honda Civic with a woman and two children inside on Old Lakeville No. 3 Road around 7:30 p.m., according to the California Highway Patrol.

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He was waiting to turn left onto Lakeville Highway when a brick oven pizza trailer became detached from a van and crashed into the driver’s side of the Honda, CHP Officer Andrew Barclay said.

The Honda overturned and Usher was pronounced dead at the scene, Barclay said. The woman and a boy passenger were taken to a nearby hospital, while the other boy in the Honda was taken to UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland for treatment of mild to moderate injuries, Barclay said.

The driver of the van carrying the trailer with the oven remained at the scene and cooperated with the crash investigation.

His name was not being released.

Firefighters on a bus returning from a wildland fire and a number of passersby stopped to help the victims, Barclay said.

The crash remains under investigation by the CHP.

--Bay City News