LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The coroner’s office has released the name of a Middletown man who died in a single vehicle crash last week near Clearlake Oaks.
Robert Allen Harris, 59, died at the scene of the wreck, which occurred last Thursday, Jan. 31, on Highway 20 near Beryl Way west of Clearlake Oaks, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Harris was driving his 1992 Ford van eastbound on Highway 20 shortly before 6 p.m. that day when witnesses reported that he passed another vehicle on a blind curve, the CHP reported.
The CHP said Harris lost control of his van and slid sideways into a tree, receiving fatal injuries in the wreck.