UPDATE: Man Killed After Highway 1 Head-On Collision

UPDATE 12 p.m. Friday-

The Sonoma County coroner’s office has identified a driver killed in a head-on collision on State Highway 1 on the coast Thursday afternoon as Jeffrey Simon, 55, of Richmond.

Simon was driving a 1994 Toyota pickup south on the highway about 2.4 miles south of Kruse Ranch Road near Salt Point State Park around 2 p.m. when he collided at a curve in the road with a northbound 2001 Ford Crown Victoria, California Highway Patrol Officer Keri Post said.

Simon was pronounced dead at 2:25 p.m. and an autopsy was under way Friday morning, a coroner’s office spokeswoman said.

The Ford’s driver, Kyle Ryley Ferguson, 31, of Vallejo, was arrested on suspicion of DUI, gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and driving without a license. He is being held in the Sonoma County Jail with bail set at $100,000 and is scheduled to be arraigned Monday afternoon in Sonoma County Superior Court.

A female passenger in Simon’s Toyota suffered minor abrasions and was taken to a hospital as a precaution, Post said.

A male passenger in the Ford, who is the Ford’s registered owner, complained of pain but was not taken to a hospital, Post said.

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(Original story)

SONOMA COAST - A man was killed in a head-on collision on state Highway 1 in the Salt Point area of the Sonoma Coast Thursday afternoon, according to the California Highway Patrol.

The 2:08 p.m. collision involved a blue Buick sedan and a small pickup truck that went down an embankment, CHP officials said.

The man who died was riding in one of the vehicles with his wife, and the driver of the other vehicle is suspected of being intoxicated, CHP Officer Jon Sloat said.

The crash blocked both directions of Highway 1.

The Timber Cove Fire Protection District responded to the collision, CHP officials said.

-Bay City News