On Saturday, June 3, 2023, CHP Officers responded to a two-vehicle crash which resulted in two fatalities and four injured parties.
On June 3, 2023, at approximately 9:25 pm, Phil Placzek was traveling southbound on SR-3 south of Forest Mountain Summit in a Ford F-250 pickup. Erika Cavener-Hansen was traveling northbound on SR-3 in a Honda Pilot approaching from the opposite direction, during hours of darkness. As Phil Placzek traveled southbound, downhill, through a sweeping curve in…



