Crime & Safety
Wreck on Waterman Road Kills Teenage Boy
Waterman Road is reopened Sunday a.m. after one-car accident
The is investigating the cause of a single-vehicle accident that killed a teenage boy Saturday night after the car he was riding in hit a power pole and flipped over on Waterman Road.
Two other male teenagers in the car, including the driver of the 1998 Buick Century, were taken to a nearby hospital with non-life threatening injuries, according to the Elk Grove Police Department.
Officers closed Waterman Road between Sheldon and Brown Roads for several hours early Sunday morning, but reopened it around 8:30 a.m. The Sacramento Bee reported Sunday that that the identified the boy as 16-year-old Ryan Richard Boyd.
Elk Grove Police ask anyone with information to call the Elk Grove Police Department Traffic Bureau at 916-478-8148.
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