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PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
Friday, February 2, 2024
Issued By: Lieutenant Jeremy Walsh
Petaluma Police Department
Special Operations
707.778.4372

Incident: Fatal Traffic Collision
Report Number: 24-0495
Occurred Date : February 1, 2024
Occurred Time: 12:37 pm
Location: Lakeville Highway at Pine View Way

Incident Summary

On Thursday, February 1, 2024, at approximately 12:37 pm, Petaluma Police Department Officers and Petaluma Fire Department Personnel were dispatched to a vehicle collision involving two vehicles on Lakeville Highway at Pine View Way. Emergency personnel arrived on scene and located a small SUV off the North side of the roadway for Westbound Lakeville Highway with an unresponsive female inside. The vehicle had sustained major driver’s side damage. A second vehicle, a sedan, was in the Eastbound lanes of Lakeville Highway with significant front-end damage. Paramedics pronounced the seventy-nine-year-old female driver of the SUV deceased at the scene. The twenty-two-year-old male driver of the sedan sustained minor injuries and was transported to a local hospital.

The investigation is ongoing, and determining the exact cause of the collision is still being investigated. The driver of the sedan is cooperating with the investigation and there is no indication at this time that drugs or alcohol played a role in this collision.

The name of the deceased and further information which may reveal her identity is being withheld pending the notification of her family by the Sonoma County Coroner’s Office.

The Petaluma Police Department is asking anyone who may have witnessed the collision to contact Traffic Officer Garrett Sholin at [email protected] or by phone at 707-776-3721.

Media inquiries may be directed to Lieutenant Jeremy Walsh at [email protected] or phone 707-776-3743.