Salinas man killed in crash that shut down Blanco and Reservation Tuesday

UPDATE 4/11/2019 11:00 a.m. 39-year-old Tyrone Burton of Salinas was pronounced dead at the scene of a crash on Reservation Road east of Blanco Tuesday.

It happened around 3:50 in the afternoon. A 25-year-old Salinas woman and Burton were driving eastbound on Reservation Road approaching Inter-Garrison Road when he slowed down to make a turn.

The car driven by the woman hit the back of Burton’s car. He died at the scene and the woman was taken to Natividad Medical Center with moderate injuries. She is not facing any charges.

UPDATE 4/9/2019 6:00 p.m.

A fatal accident shut down a major road Tuesday, just before 5 p.m.

It happened on Reservation road just east of Blanco.

The road was closed between Blanco and Inter-Garrison.

The CHP says a silver Pontiac Grand Am was heading eastbound on Reservation Road.

They believe it stopped in the road to make,what would have been, an illegal u-turn.

A pickup truck was traveling in the same direction, that truck slammed into the back or side of the Grand Am.

The 39 year-old male driver, who the CHP believes was from Marina, died at the scene.

“The driver of the pickup truck was a female who is also the only occupant in [the truck],” Officer Matt Babcock with the California Highway Patrol, “She did suffer head injuries and was alert and talking to us and she was transported to a local trauma center.”

The CHP says she was 22 or 23-years-old and from Salinas.

They’re not sure whether or not she saw the driver of the pontiac who stopped to make that illegal u-turn before she hit it.

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Traffic is being turned around and it’s expected to be this way for the next couple of hours.

KION has a reporter en route and will update this story as details become available.