Vehicle collision on Marin Avenue results in 2 dead, damaged power pole Google/Courtesy Berkeley Police Department emergency personnel responded to a collision on Marin Avenue on Tuesday at 1:39 p.m. The collision resulted in two deaths and a damaged power pole. A two-vehicle collision Tuesday afternoon in the area of Marin Avenue and Spruce Street resulted in two deaths and a damaged power pole. At 1:39 p.m., Berkeley Police Department emergency personnel responded to a reported collision on Marin Avenue between Spruce Street and San Benito Street, according to a BPD alert. A woman in a four-door sedan was pronounced dead at the scene of the collision, and the driver of the sedan later died at a local hospital.