LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — The Lake County Sheriff’s Office has identified the driver killed when the tanker truck he was driving overturned and went off Highway 20 early Saturday morning.

Frank Stuart Kountz, 57, from Willows died in the crash, said Lauren Berlinn, the sheriff’s public information officer.

Kountz was driving a 2013 Kenworth tanker truck westbound on Highway 20 east of Clearlake Oaks shortly after 6 a.m. Saturday when the tanker overturned while he was negotiating a right-hand curve in the roadway, the California Highway Patrol’s Clear Lake Area office reported.

The truck, which was carrying a load of milk, crossed the eastbound lane before traveling down an embankment south of the highway, the CHP said.

Kountz died of his injuries at the scene, where reports from the scene indicated that it took until Saturday evening to remove the truck, respond to the milk spill and clear the incident.

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