Icy curve in PMC flips car off roadway

  • [photo by Patric Hedlund, The Mountain Enterprise]

    [photo by Patric Hedlund, The Mountain Enterprise]

By Patric Hedlund, TME

Beware: Ice is still a hazard on mountain roads.

Despite cinders on a plowed road and bright sun at about 10:30 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 10, a Toyota 4Runner traveling east on Mil Potrero Highway in Pine Mountain Club hit ice on a shady curve. The SUV flipped into a ditch beside the road between Woodland Drive and…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Left: Toyota 4Runner on its roof in the snow; Above: CHP officers warn about speed and ice in the shadows.

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This is part of the January 17, 2020 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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