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Man dies after vehicle crashes into tree outside Granite Bay neighborhood, CHP says

Roadway fatality

A 68-year-old Shingle Springs man died Friday after crashing a vehicle into a tree in Placer County, the California Highway Patrol said.

A spokeswoman with the CHP’s Auburn area office said officers were called about 3:50 p.m. to Auburn Folsom Road near Woodchase Drive in unincorporated Placer County. The stretch of roadway is a tree-lined street bordering several homes in Granite Bay.

The South Placer Fire District found the man dead inside the vehicle, wrote Yvette Norman, a spokeswoman with the CHP’s Auburn office.

Norman wrote it’s unknown what caused the man to crash into the tree.

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Ishani Desai
The Sacramento Bee
Ishani Desai is former reporter for The Sacramento Bee.
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