Two men from McArthur who were killed in a crash on Highway 299 east of Redding last week have been identified by the coroners office as 30-year-old Leobardo Tapia Sosa and 25-year-old Hector Miguel Gutierrez Tapia. At around 2:15AM last Thursday an iPhone crash notification was received by SHASCOM from a few miles east of Bella Vista. Responders found a vehicle about 40 feet off the roadway overturned in the bed of Salt Creek near Blue Sky Road. Both men were already dead. The CHP says the car was likely heading east on Highway 299 when it hit the guardrail and flipped over the bridge. Speed is believed to have been a factor.
-Steve Gibson