California Highway Patrol officers were investigating two fatal car crashes that killed three people in Sonoma County on Monday amid slick road conditions caused by heavy rain.
Officers responded to reports of a fatal two-car crash on Highway 12 near Oakmont Drive east of Santa Rosa at 8:20 a.m., said CHP spokesman David deRutte. A driver lost control and swerved across lanes, hitting an oncoming truck.
The driver, 21, and passenger, 44, were identified as a mother and daughter from Sonoma. Both were pronounced dead at the scene.
Ongoing road construction due to the Glass Fire may have played a role in the crash, deRutte said.
“There was no shoulder,” he said. “There were concrete walls along the shoulder so the truck driver had nowhere to go to avoid it.”
Three minutes later, officers were called to reports of a four-car pile up on the same highway. Four cars crashed near Merced Avenue between Santa Rosa and Sebastopol at 8:23 a.m., deRutte said. A driver swerved into oncoming traffic, sideswiping a transit van before colliding head-on with a box truck.
The driver, identified as a 32-year-old Sebastopol man, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Rainy weather created slick driving conditions in Sonoma County throughout the day Monday. The region has received nearly an inch of rain the last 24 hours, according to the National Weather Service.
The visibility was terrible deRutte said. “If the drivers had been going slower for the rainy conditions, it might have helped.”
Nora Mishanec is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: nora.mishanec@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @NMishanec
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