Dense fog on December 31st reduced visibility for drivers in Humboldt County. The reduction in visibility resulted in an indirect fatality when a car struck a pedestrian near Eureka, CA.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS EKA wrote it up.
Dense fog on December 31st reduced visibility for drivers in Humboldt County. The reduction in visibility resulted in an indirect fatality when a car struck a pedestrian near Eureka, CA.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 dense fog. Local standard time, as filed.
Dense fog on December 31st reduced visibility for drivers in Humboldt County. The reduction in visibility resulted in an indirect fatality when a car struck a pedestrian near Eureka, CA.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dense Fog, Northern Humboldt Coast | 2017-12-31 | 17 | Male | Outside/Open Areas | Indirect |
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