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An 80-year-old Santa Clarita man was identified by authorities Tuesday as the person killed in a Monday morning RV crash.
Gordon Harry McGuff, an 80-year-old resident of Santa Clarita, has been identified as the person killed in a fatal crash that sent an RV into the Santa Clara Riverbed on Monday, according to Sarah Ardalani, spokesperson with the Los Angeles County Coroner-Medical Examiner’s Office.
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McGuff was killed when the Bounder RV he was travelling in went off the roadway at a roundabout intersection of Jakes Way and Lost Canyon Road, and careened into the dry Santa Clara River, crashing onto boulders in the riverbank,
“An RV drove over a curb into the Santa Clara River,” said Sean Ferguson, spokesperson with the Los Angeles County Fire Department at the time.
McGuff was later pronounced dead at the scene, and a postmortem examination is pending, according to Ardalani.
The cause of the incident remains under investigation.
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This article is written in a way that suggests that he was was killed in the crash, when the RV went over the curb. Yet looking at the photographic and video evidence this does not look like a crash that would kill someone.
It is very likely that he suffered a medical event such as a heart attack and was quite possibly dead before the crash, not as a result of the crash.
This article should reflect that probability.
Are you a trained traffic collision investigator?.
I recently complained to the city about that roundabout there are no yield signs or marked crosswalks, there is also evidence of other crashes there.
RIP sir, condolences to your family & friends.