Updated: Identities released in fatal Highway 46 accident
Update posted1:45 p.m., July 15: The California Highway Patrol is currently investigating the solo vehicle traffic collision that resulted in the death of two people on Tuesday. The driver involved has been identified as 22-year-old Cambria resident Ismael Ochoa. The two passengers in the vehicle have been identified as 20-year-old Patience Robbins of Cambria, who was sitting in the right front seat, and 11-year-old William Robbins, who was sitting in the back seat, behind the driver. Ochoa was driving a 2000 Ford F-150.
CHP says that Ochoa appears to have fallen asleep and allowed the Ford F-150 to drift off the north roadway edge of Highway 46. Ochoa then made an abrupt turning movement to the left, and the abrupt turning movement caused the F-150 to travel across both of the traffic lanes and begin to rotate in a counter clockwise direction as it traveled off the south roadway edge and down a steep embankment.
When the F-150 started down the embankment it overturned an unknown number of times, causing William Robbins, who was not wearing a seatbelt, to be ejected from the Ford F-150. The F-150 came to rest approximately 300 feet down the embankment.
Both William Robbins and Patience Robbins (who was wearing her seatbelt), were pronounced dead at the scene of the collision. The driver, Ochoa, was transported to Sierra Vista Hospital for treatment. The cause of death for both Patience and William Robbins was multiple blunt force traumas.
Although drugs and alcohol do not appear to be a factor in this collision, the investigation is ongoing, according to CHP.
Original story posted July 15, 8:30 a.m.– An accident that occurred Tuesday on Highway 46 west, near Old Creek Road has resulted in the death of two Cambria residents, one of which was a child between the ages of 11 and 12, according to the California Highway Patrol. The driver also sustained major injuries.
On Tuesday, at approximately 4 p.m., a Cambria man was driving a Ford F-150 on Highway 46 West, west of Old Creek Rd., at approximately 55 mph. The driver appears to have fallen asleep at which time the vehicle traveled to the right and ran off the roadway.
The driver woke up turned the vehicle to the left, and the vehicle began to spin counter clockwise. The vehicle traveled across the lanes, then back to the right as it traveled onto the south shoulder. The vehicle then traveled onto the south dirt shoulder area and down the steep embankment and immediately overturned.
The vehicle continued down the embankment overturning at which time the juvenile male passenger was ejected from the vehicle. Both passengers were pronounced deceased at the scene, and the driver was transported to Sierra Vista Hospital with major injuries, CHP reports.
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