Marshall Teen Dies In Head-On With Big-Rig

MARIN COUNTY, CA – The Marin County Sheriff's Office has identified a passenger who died in a head-on collision with a big-rig in unincorporated Marshall on Monday afternoon as 18-year-old Ricardo DeSantiago.

DeSantiago, a Marshall resident, was riding in a Honda Prelude coupe driven by a 23-year-old Marshall man at 4:38 p.m. in the area of 18863 Shoreline Highway when it collided with a northbound Peterbilt dump
truck-trailer that was towing a small excavator, California Highway Patrol Officer Andrew Barclay said.

The Honda driver drifted off the right side of the road on a left curve, tried to turn back into the lane and crossed the center of the road into the path of the big-rig, Barclay said.

DeSantiago was extricated from the vehicle at the scene and was pronounced dead by the Marin County Sheriff's Office around 5 p.m. The Honda driver suffered major injuries and was flown to a hospital.

The CHP determined he was impaired and he was arrested at the hospital, Barclay said. The CHP is not releasing the driver's name until he is booked into Marin County Jail, Barclay said.

The 54-year-old driver of the big-rig was not impaired or injured, according to Barclay.

The collision closed Shoreline Highway until around 9:30 p.m.

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