Pregnant Atascadero woman loses baby following head-on crash
August 28, 2026
By KAREN VELIE
A pregnant Atascadero woman lost her baby after a wrong-way driver crashed into the car she was driving on the Cuesta Grade on Wednesday night.
Under the influence of alcohol and possibly drugs, David Worthington Ross was driving a white GMC Canyon truck the wrong way, heading southbound on northbound Highway 101, when he crashed head-on into the Atascadero woman’s black Dodge Charger. Three other vehicles also crashed into both the truck and the Charger.
Paramedics pronounced the passenger in the Charger, a 55-year-old Grover Beach man, dead at the scene of the crash.
Responders transported Ross and the pregnant driver of the Charger to Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center, both suffering from major injuries.
Because of a previous DUI conviction, Ross could face a second-degree murder charge.
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