Gravel truck tips over and crushes California woman in her car in her driveway

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A 32-year-old woman who was fatally crushed by a falling gravel trailer in her Martinez driveway was planning to have the first ultrasound scan of her pregnancy this week, her grieving fiance said Tuesday as he questioned what he called a “totally avoidable accident.”

Lindsey Combs, a hairstylist who was nearly two months pregnant, entered harm’s way Monday afternoon when she was asked to move her car farther away from a city sidewalk project.

But after she got into the car at about 1 p.m., the gravel trailer tipped on top of her as her 4-year-old daughter looked on, according to police and witness accounts. The incident is under investigation by Martinez authorities and Cal/OSHA, the state workplace safety regulator.

“I am devastated, upset, mostly upset that this was totally avoidable,” said the girl’s father and Combs’ fiance, 39-year-old Anderson Pamilton, in an interview Tuesday. “Just a roller coaster of emotions.”

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