MOORPARK : Student, 17, Killed in Traffic Accident

Shane Umberger, 17, a popular Moorpark High School student, died in a traffic accident in Northern California on his way home from a rock concert, his mother, Carol Kelley, said Thursday.

Shane died after his friend fell asleep while driving and the car went off the road near Yreka, rolling several times before stopping, police said.

Shane was pronounced dead at 6:30 a.m.

His friend, Josh Thompson, also of Moorpark, was only slightly injured in the accident.

Police said neither of the boys was under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time.

The pair were returning from a Grateful Dead concert in Oregon.

Shane’s mother, who was in New York City, said that her watch stopped at 6:25 a.m. that same morning. Her son knew his death was imminent, she said.

“I just believe there was some spiritual power at work,” she said. “I was talking with his friends and it just seems like there are a million things that show he knew.”

Recently, Kelley said, her son had asked her to call him “Angel.”

“I thought it was just another funny thing kids do, but now I can see he was telling me something,” Kelley said by phone from Kentucky where Shane is being buried. “He just knew it was going to happen.”

She said her son, who sang and played guitar for the local alternative rock band Sorrow’s End, removed all the music posters from his room and put up a picture he had drawn over his bed of an angel playing guitar.

He recently changed his phone answering machine to say, “Don’t call me here anymore.”

And, Kelley said, the last song that the Grateful Dead sang at the concert was “Knocking at Heaven’s Door.”

The family planned a memorial service for 7 p.m. Thursday at Arroyo Vista Community Park in Moorpark.