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CHP: Driver fled scene of fatal bicycle crash  

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A suspected drunken driver fled the scene of a fatal head-on crash with a bicyclist Friday but ran off the road in Los Altos Hills, according to the California Highway Patrol, which has provided new details of the crash.

The collision took place on Old Page Mill Road, a quarter-mile from Page Mill Road, shortly before noon. The name of the cyclist is being withheld.

CHP Officer Demarcus Lack said the driver of the car, Chevelle Bailey, 41, of Fremont, was driving east on Old Page Mill Road north of Page Mill Road when "due to his level of intoxication'' he crossed into the westbound lane and struck the cyclist head on.

He said Bailey fled the scene in his Oldsmobile, Lack said, but then crashed the car again. Officers said the car was about 50 down an embankment when officers arrived.

Bailey was arrested and booked into Santa Clara County Main Jail in San Jose on charges of manslaughter with gross negligence, driving under the influence causing an injury, fleeing the scene of an injury collision and being under the influence of a controlled substance, Lack reported.

The Santa Clara County Medical Examiner/Coroner's office said no information on the cyclist is being released at this time.

Anyone with information about the collision is asked to call Officer Lack at (650) 369-6261.


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