Alcohol consumption contributed to a single-car crash early Monday morning east of St. Helena that injured five Napa County teenagers, one seriously, the California Highway Patrol reported.
The wreck occurred at 12:45 a.m. on the southbound Silverado Trail north of Taplin Road, CHP said in a news release.
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The driver, a 17-year-old Napa boy, was negotiating a curve on Silverado’s southbound lane in a 2004 Honda when he lost control, the highway patrol reported. The car left the edge of the roadway, struck a metal guardrail, crashed into a barbed-wire fence, and then struck a dirt and grass embankment before coming to rest on its wheels.
Estrella Gomez Guerrero, an 18-year-old Angwin resident, was taken by American Medical Response ambulance to Providence Queen of the Valley Medical Center with that CHP described as major injuries.
Two of the other three passengers, a 19-year-old Napa man, and an 18-year-old St. Helena woman, sustained minor injuries and also were taken to the Queen for treatment.
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Also taken to the Napa hospital was the driver, who was detained at the scene, according to CHP. His name was not released because of his age.
Silverado was not blocked by the wreck, CHP reported. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.
Photos: Lighted Art Festival illuminates Napa nights
Napa Lighted Art Festival 2022
John Arrambide of Napa posed for a friend's snapshot in front of the wings, glowing halo and colored lighting that form Angels of Freedom, the artwork by OGE Group of Haifa, Israel that encourages passers-by to imagine a seraphic form of themselves. The installation, which appeared in the 2020 Napa Lighted Art Festival, debuted with seven other works in the festival's fourth edition.
Napa Lighted Art Festival 2022
Each of the seven seed-pod like heads of illuminated tubes in the installation Electric Dandelions, on display at Napa's Riverfront for the city's fourth annual Lighted Art Festival, produces changing color patterns that pulsate through the tubes.
Napa Lighted Art Festival 2022
Cloud Swings, a trio of swing sets with cloud-like canopies, debuted Saturday night outside CIA at Copia on First Street as part of the fourth Napa Lighted Art Festival. The artwork's New Orleans-based creator Lindsay Glatz describes it as partly a "love letter" to her husband and partly a tribute to her grandmother, a textile artist and painter.
Napa Lighted Art Festival 2022
One of the more distinctive pieces in this year's Napa Lighted Art Festival is the Napa artist Vincent Connors' work Suspensions, a group of lantern-like sacks sewn from crocheted blankets and hung from the branches of an oak in the First Street Napa shopping arcade.
Napa Lighted Art Festival 2022
One of several children who worked their way inside D'ome, a half-dome-like web of interlocking wooden barrel staves, playfully reached for a metal mobile strung from the top of the artwork. The installation by the Napa artist Scott Haycock is on display in the Brown Street pedestrian corridor during the Napa Lighted Art Festival.
Napa Lighted Art Festival 2022
Downtown visitors strolled through Veterans Memorial Park on Main Street for a closer look at Lightforms, one of eight installations comprising the fourth annual Napa Lighted Art Festival. The set of five sculptures created by Yelena Filipchuk and Serge Beaulieu of the Los Angeles-based Hybycozo incorporates combinations of repeated geometric shapes and mathematical patterns, and its 11-foot-tall centerpiece is inspired by the geodesic domes penned by the inventor R. Buckminster Fuller.
Napa Lighted Art Festival 2022
Vincent Connors of Napa is showcasing two works this year in the city's Lighted Art Festival, including Spherules, which is being displayed atop the former fountain inside Dwight Murray Plaza on First Street.
Napa Lighted Art Festival 2022
Full Metal Poppy, a sculpture by Jacques Lesec on display in front of the historic Goodman Library on First Street, is one of four works in this year's Napa Lighted Arts Festival to be created by a Napa-based artist. The outdoor gallery debuted Saturday night and will be displayed through March 13, as organizers move toward a longer event with fewer works in order to spread out spectators as a safeguard against COVID-19.
Napa Lighted Art Festival 2022
The flower-like clusters of "Electric Dandelions," by Abram Santa Cruz of Los Angeles-based Liquid PXL, cast a colorful glow on the Riverfront promenade Saturday on the opening night of the Napa Lighted Art Festival.
Napa Lighted Art Festival 2022
Yelena Filipchuk of Los Angeles-based Hybycozo, the co-creator with Serge Beaulieu of the art installation Lightforms, explains the mathematical principles behind the design of the work's 62-sided centerpiece Saturday on the opening night of the Napa Lighted Art Festival. Lightforms will be exhibited at Veterans Memorial Park nightly through the festival's March 13 conclusion.
Napa Lighted Art Festival 2022
The colored illumination within the five sculptures comprising Lightforms, the artwork on display at Veterans Memorial Park, mirrored the work's intricately cut geometric patterns onto the pavement of the park amphitheater. Lightforms is one of eight works to be showcased at the fourth annual Napa Lighted Art Festival, which began Saturday and will continue nightly through March 13.
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