16-year-old SLO County girl dies after car crash, CHP says
A 16-year-old girl from Oceano died two days after she was hospitalized for injuries she received in a car crash near Arroyo Grande last week, California Highway Patrol announced in a news release Tuesday.
The girl was sitting in the backseat of a 2003 Nissan while an 18-year-old boy was driving on March 15.
The release says the driver “allowed his vehicle to travel to the right, off the roadway and up a dirt embankment” near Noyes Road, west of Sunray Place around 5 p.m. The car collided with two wood and metal road signs and a tree.
The driver did not sustain serious injuries from the crash, but his passenger, the 16-year-old girl, was unconscious and unresponsive at the scene.
The girl was taken to Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center to be treated for her injuries, where she was pronounced dead two days later on March 17.
CHP does not think alcohol or drugs were a factor in the collision.
This story was originally published March 22, 2022 at 3:55 PM.
