Crime & Safety

SJC Man Dies in Wyoming Car Crash

Gerald Hahn careened off a highway and back onto it on the other side in a single-car accident.

A San Juan Capistrano man was killed in a car crash this weekend in Wyoming.

The Lusk Herald reports that Gerald Hahn, 68, died in a one-car accident on state Highway 270 Sunday afternoon.

The Wyoming Highway Patrol reported that for unknown reasons, Hahn’s vehicle went off the roadway on the right side. According to the Herald:

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Hahn had apparently overcorrected the vehicle’s steering to the left, causing the vehicle to come back on the roadway and to go into a broadside slide. The vehicle rolled 1¾ times and came to a rest on the driver’s side in the northbound lane. 

Hahn did have on his seatbelt.  

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