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An Acton man killed in a Big Tujunga Canyon Road rollover crash was identified Thursday after emergency responders located his vehicle 185 feet down an Angeles National Forest mountainside.
Around 10 p.m. Tuesday, emergency responders received reports of a traffic collision just west of County Fire Marker 2.92 in the Angeles National Forest, several miles southeast of Santa Clarita, according to officers with the California Highway Patrol (CHP).
“For unknown reasons (the) vehicle ran off the roadway,” read a statement from CHP. “It continued out of control down the mountainside, rolling over an unknown number of times, before coming to rest 185 feet down the mountainside.”
The driver, William Gibbard, 55, was pronounced dead on arrival.
“He was a local resident for years,” shared a post from the Acton Community Group on FaceBook. “I truly think he’ll be happier being with his forever soulmate once again. RIP Wild Bill.”
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Those are not “County Fire markers,” they’re called “mile markers.”
This is one of hundreds of people every morning I see on my way to work commuting through Angels national Forest who think they’re driving Ferraris.
every single day I see one of these accidents on the way to work on our way home people are passing double solid lines with thousand foot drop offs on blind double corners with double-sided lines this is a daily event there’s a full-time crew replacing guardrails on Angels national Forest they work almost every day I don’t go a week without seeing one actually in person being cranked up the side of the hill by a tow truck people drive to the angels national Forest like they’re on a closed race track .
I saw three last week alone.