Santa Rosa Man Dies In Marin County Big-Rig Crash

NORTH BAY, CA — The Marin County coroner's office has identified a big-rig driver who died in a fiery crash on U.S. Highway 101 in San Rafael Wednesday night as Eric James Curtis, 49, of Santa Rosa. Curtis was hauling food in a truck-trailer on northbound Highway 101 north of North San Pedro Road around 10 p.m. when the cab made a sudden left turn into the center divider and caught fire, California Highway Patrol
Officer Andrew Barclay said.

The truck owned by BiRite Foodservice Distributors of Brisbane jackknifed but the trailer remained upright. The cab and a portion of the trailer burned, Barclay said.

No mechanical defects in the big-rig were found, and cameras on board the badly burned cab may contain video to indicate why the cab made an abrupt left turn, Barclay said.

Curtis was pronounced dead at 10:18 p.m., coroner's investigator Roger Fielding said.

By Bay City News Service

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