LOWER LAKE, Calif. – A Hayward man escaped serious injury on Sunday after his pickup crashed into a tree along Highway 29.

California Highway Patrol Officer Kory Reynolds said Joshua Herpe, 36, was the driver in the crash.

At 8:15 p.m. Sunday Herpe was driving his 1997 Nissan Pathfinder northbound on Highway 29 near Doten Road at an unknown speed when, for unknown reasons, he allowed his vehicle to go off the roadway and hit a tree, Reynolds said.

Reynolds said Herpe suffered a laceration to his forehead and was taken to Sutter Lakeside Hospital by Kelseyville Fire Ambulance.

Drugs and alcohol are not suspected to be factors in the collision, which Reynolds said is still under investigation by CHP Officer Jeremy Jensen.