SNOW VALLEY Ski Resort
Arrowhead Area California
Highway Patrol, Running Springs, CA May 31, 2019___
Thursday,
May 30th, 2019, 4:00 P.M. Highway Patrol
responded to a call of a solo vehicle traffic collision that occurred on the State
Route-18, south of the entrance to Snow Valley Ski Resort.
At
the scene the responders found the male driver (Party #1), a 19-year-old, was
driving a black 2017 Ford Fiesta (Vehicle #1), northbound on SR-18, at an
unknown speed.
Later, the driver of the Ford Fiesta,
was identified as 19-year old, Colin McDonald, a resident of Big Bear Lake, also a 2018 Big Bear High School graduate.
For reasons still under
investigation, Colin lost control of his vehicle and traveled onto the right
shoulder of SR-18. The vehicle then left the roadway and collided with a tree. Finally the Ford came to rest on its wheels,
in the Snow Valley parking lot.
Colin McDonald sustained major
injuries and was transported to Bear Valley Community Hospital, where he
succumbed to his injuries.
Please
contact the Arrowhead CHP Regional Headquarters in Running Springs, CHP Officer
A. Williams, #20725, if you have any further information regarding this
collision.