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Wednesday, April 9, 2014

A 53-year-old Lompoc man was killed in a rear-end collision Thursday night along Highway 1, according to the California Highway Patrol.

The accident happened around 8:48 p.m., just south of Highway 135.

Officers say the driver of a truck pulling a flatbed trailer was headed southbound on Highway 1 at speeds between 35 and 45 miles per hour when the Lompoc man, driving a silver Mercedes, slammed into the rear end of the truck at an unsafe rate of speed.

The Mercedes became trapped underneath the trailer, the CHP said.