A man was killed Tuesday after the vehicle he was driving hit a tree and flipped west of Petaluma. Medical personnel pronounced the man dead Tuesday afternoon at the crash site off Bodega Avenue near King Road. The man was driving a Nissan headed east at an unsafe speed on Bodega Avenue just before 3 p.m. when the vehicle veered right and hit a tree. The Nissan overturned down an embankment and landed on its roof. The man’s identity will be released by the Sonoma County Coroner’s Unit after his family has been notified. CHP is handling the investigation.
