A Scotts Valley man died early Saturday when he was hit head-on by a wrong-way driver on northbound Interstate 5 east of Chico, according to the California Highway Patrol and the Chico Enterprise-Record.
Morgan Decker-Stone, 22, was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver who hit him, Abraham Espinoza, 41, also died in the crash near Highway 32. Espionza, of Corning, was driving on a suspended license and may have been under the influence of alcohol at the time, according to the CHP. Read the story from the E-R here.
Decker-Stone attended Coast Redwoods High School and Cabrillo College. While still in college, he helped start GoGoCAST, which provides digital signage.
Services will be 3 p.m. Saturday at Benito and Azzaro Pacific Garden Chapel in Santa Cruz. Reach the funeral home at 423-5721.
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B Jones // Sep 19, 2007 at 1:26 am
Your style of of journalism depersonalises the young University Student killed on I-5, by headlines such as Local “kid” killed in … I would have chosen to say, “Promising young student killed…” or many other choice of words than “kid”. This was a tragic loss of a young man’s life in circumstances that are inexcusable and were I his parent, I would cringe at the inference to my son as simply “Local kid”. He is a person, he has a name.
JVaughan // Oct 5, 2007 at 12:51 pm
From the family of the “kid” thank you for your caring words and anger towards this paper for depersonalizing what the greatest tragedy of all. Death by cliche. Absolutley passive agressive and brutal towards the families.
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