Fort Bragg Police Department

Car-pedestrian fatality reported at Cypress Street near State Route 1 in Fort Bragg Thursday 8-9 Pm

A woman was killed after 8 p.m Thursday night by a truck at Cypress Street and State Route 1. We were on lunch break going to Safeway from the hospital at 9:30 pM, and Cypress was blocked at Franklin by Fort Bragg Police. We found out someone had been killed, but we will wait for more info to write more. This was not a hit and run. There was a large truck inside the police lines, we don;t know if that was a witness or what. From what we saw, the crash happened right in front of Taco Bell. We will be adding facts to this story on Friday, we wont be putting out a new story. Check back about noon. We like to do some warnings and get more than the basics when a person has lost their life. We don’t report scanner chatter, so this is all we have for you at the moment. A woman was also hit June 30 at Chestnut Street between Highway 1 and South Franklin. That person has since recovered.

We couldnt see much and any facts will have to wait until tomorrow. Linda was able to confirm more of the story
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Frank Hartzell has spent his lifetime as a curious anthropologist in a reporter's fedora. His first news job was chasing news on the streets of Houston with high school buddy and photographer James Mason, back in 1986. Then Frank graduated from Humboldt State and went to Great Gridley as a reporter, where he bonded with 1000 people and told about 3000 of their stories. In Marysville at the Appeal Democrat, the sheltered Frank got to see both the chilling depths and amazing heights of humanity. From there, he worked at the Sacramento Bee covering Yuba-Sutter and then owned the Business Journal in Yuba City, which sold 5000 subscriptions to a free newspaper. Frank then got a prestigious Kiplinger Investigative Reporting fellowship and was city editor of the Newark Ohio, Advocate and then came back to California for 4 years as managing editor of the Napa Valley Register before working as a Dominican University professor, then coming to Fort Bragg to be with his aging mom, Betty Lou Hartzell, and working for the Fort Bragg Advocate News. Frank paid the bills during that decade + with a successful book business. He has worked for over 50 publications as a freelance writer, including the Mendocino Voice and Anderson Valley Advertiser, along with construction and engineering publications. He has had the thrill of learning every day while writing. Frank is now living his dream running MendocinoCoast.News with wife, Linda Hartzell, and web developer, Marty McGee, reporting from Fort Bragg, California.

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