CHP: Driver who died in Sonoma Valley crash was groom, due to marry next day

A Mountain View man due to be married last Saturday in Sonoma died Friday night in a Sonoma car crash, according to the CHP.

The 11:55 p.m. crash remained under investigation Tuesday but the CHP said the driver, Yan Wang, 27, may have been drinking prior to crashing the sports car he was driving.

Wang was driving a 2010 Porsche Cayman when he lost control on rural Seventh Street east, northeast of Sonoma.

He was headed south on Seventh Street, north of Castle Road, when the Porsche ran off the roadway and hit a tree. The impact launched the car into the air. It rolled, then hit a fence and another tree before landing on its roof, the CHP said.

Riding with Wang was a 28-year-old New York man, believed to be a groomsman. His name wasn't available from the CHP. Officers were told the two were in the Sonoma area for a wedding on Saturday and that Wang was the groom.

Both men were trapped in the overturned car and had to be cut free. Wang died in the crash. The passenger suffered head and neck trauma and was flown to Queen of the Valley Hospital in Napa.

How fast the driver was going remained under investigation.