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Driver Killed After Striking Fence, Rolling Down Embankment in Concord

he car bounced into a couple of trees, then hit a redwood fence, before it ricocheted back across the side street and back up the steep embankment.

A male driver died Thursday morning in Concord, when his vehicle struck a fence, and went off the road, and rolling down an embankment, police said.

Cpl. Christopher Blakely the crash was reported at 7:57 a.m. on South Larwin near the intersection of Ygnacio Valley and Ayers roads. The car bounced into a couple of trees, then hit a redwood fence, Blakely said, before it ricocheted back across the side street and back up the steep embankment.

Originally, police had information that the car rolled into a house.

β€œAs the Honda went down the embankment, it struck several trees," Blakely said. "From there it came close to striking a house but did not actually strike the house. It ultimately made a U-turn and came to a final point of rest right here on the embankment.”

Sky Burney, a high school junior in the neighborhood, said people tried to comfort the driver after what she described as  "grisly" scene.

β€œIt was really graphic but we tried to keep it really calm for him,” she said.

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