DISCOVERY BAY — A deadly week on East Bay highways and roadways continued Thursday when a head-on crash killed one driver and left the other with major injuries.
In a statement, the California Highway Patrol said one of the vehicles crossed double-yellow lines, causing the wreck. It happened on westbound state Highway 4, just east of Discovery Bay Boulevard.
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It was the fifth fatal crash on the highway this year. Six people have died in those wrecks.
The CHP said it has ruled out drugs and alcohol as factors in the wreck.
The crash became the third one on an East Bay freeway or highway since Monday. A 29-year-old Petaluma man died in a fiery wrong-way head-on crash on Interstate 580 near the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge on Tuesday. About seven hours later, a 20-year-old Concord man crashed and died at the Monument Boulevard exit on northbound Interstate 680 in Pleasant Hill.
On Friday, a fourth fatal crash happened when one person died in a crash on state Highway 242 in Concord. Authorities have not identified that person.
All of those fatal wrecks came after a weekend head-on crash on Ygnacio Valley Road in Walnut Creek killed a 16-year-old Mount Diablo High student.
According to the CHP, the Thursday morning wreck on Highway 4 happened when a man driving a Toyota Camry went over the double-yellow divider lines and ran straight into a GMC Sierra. The Toyota’s driver died at the scene. Authorities did not identify him immediately, pending notification of relatives.
The man driving the GMC Sierra survived after being airlifted to a hospital. The CHP said he had major injuries.