Man run over twice by truck dies

<p>A 70-year-old man died Tuesday afternoon after he was run over twice by someone backing a pickup truck out of a business driveway on Sebastopol Road.</p><p>Monty McClane of Santa Rosa was walking on the sidewalk at about 9:40 a.m. when he crossed a driveway in front of Gardeners Aid at 1050 Sebastopol Road.</p><p>He was hit by Gerald Day, 67, of Santa Rosa who was backing out of the parking lot in a Ford F-250 pickup truck. Day, thinking he had hit a curb, began to pull forward and struck McClane a second time, according to California Highway Patrol investigators.</p><p>McClane, who lived on Burbank Avenue just a few blocks from where the accident took place, was a familiar sight in the Roseland neighborhood.</p><p>He was a regular at Sam’s For Play Cafe, where for the past 10 or 12 years he ordered a breakfast of bacon, eggs, sourdough toast and coffee.</p><p>“He was so cute,” said Sam’s For Play owner Sam Anker. “He’d tell the girls little jokes each day. He was just a sweet old man.”</p><p>Anker said McClane had just left her restaurant, the next business east of Gardners Aid, when he was struck.</p><p>“He got like three steps past our driveway, to Gardner’s Aid, and the guy backed over him twice,” she said.</p><p>McClane was taken to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital with severe chest and abdomen injuries. He died at 12:25 p.m., said CHP Officer Barbara Upham.</p><p>Day told officers he had looked both ways and had seen no one behind him when he began backing his truck.</p><p>Later Tuesday afternoon, a floral arrangement had been placed on the doorstep of McClane’s home, a unit in a humble duplex tucked away at the end of a gravel driveway.</p><p>Lisa Arp, who lives next door, said McClane had no children or relatives. She said his family were the friends he made during a daily ritual that lasted more than a decade.</p><p>Arp said she tried to take care of him, often taking him to appointments and errands.</p><p>“There were a lot of people that were close to him that he saw on a daily basis,” Arp said. “He did the same routine every day.”</p><p>The collision remains under investigation, but alcohol does not appear to be a factor in the collision, Upham said.</p>