CHP Sonora On Fatality On New Priest Grade

Groveland, CA…On October 2, 2016, just after 10 AM, 59 year old Riverbank resident, Billy Trabucco was driving a 2004 Chevrolet pickup westbound on State Route 120 approaching Grizzly Road at an unknown rate of speed. Trabucco failed to negotiate a right curve in the roadway and drove across the eastbound lane of traffic and off of the south road edge of State Route 120. Trabucco’s vehicle traveled down a steep embankment and overturned, coming to rest on its roof approximately 400 feet down from the road.

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Trabucco was pinned inside the vehicle where he was pronounced deceased. Trabucco was wearing a seatbelt and the vehicle’s airbags deployed. Cause of death and whether alcohol or drugs were a factor are pending on the autopsy.