Head-on crash kills man, 27, along Northern California highway. DUI arrest made, police say
One motorist is dead and seven others were injured after two vehicles collided head-on last month at a Highway 20 intersection, according to the Yuba City Police Department.
The crash happened around 8:40 p.m. June 2, at the intersection of Highway 20 and El Margarita Road, a block north of River Valley High School, after a 39-year-old woman was traveling north on El Margarita with her 4-year-old daughter in the backseat of her white Honda Crosstour, police said in a news release. The woman did not stop at the posted stop sign and turned right around a raised center median and began traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes of Highway 20.
The Honda crashed with a Ford F-150 with six passengers traveling west along the highway, Yuba City police said. One passenger in the Ford, a 27-year-old man, later succumbed to his injuries and died at Adventist Rideout Hospital that evening. The five other occupants sustained non-life-threatening injuries.
The woman and her daughter suffered non-life-threatening injuries as well, police said. She was transported to Sutter Roseville Medical Center and her daughter was transported to UC Davis Medical Center.
Investigators believe the woman was driving under the influence of alcohol. She was arrested this weekend and booked into the Sacramento County Jail, according to Yuba City Police Department spokesman Lt. Kim Slade, on a warrant for murder, gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, driving under the influence of alcohol resulting in injury and felony child endangerment.
Yuba City police responded to the collision and will be responsible for the investigation, which is still ongoing.
