Driver killed in crash with semi truck in Santa Maria

January 11, 2025

By KAREN VELIE

A driver was killed in a crash with a semi truck in Santa Maria on Saturday morning, according to the CHP.

Shortly before 6:30 a.m., the driver crashed his vehicle into a semi truck on Highway 1 near Main Street. The driver of the passenger vehicle died at the scene.

The semi-truck driver was uninjured in the crash The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

 


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A loaded semi weighs up to eighty-thousand pounds, more than a Sherman Tank. A passenger vehicle weighs twenty-five hundred to fifty-five hundred pounds. Please keep this in mind wile interacting with trucks on the roadways.