LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — The California Highway Patrol’s Clear Lake Area office said it is investigating a crash on Highway 20 that claimed the life of a Redding woman over the weekend.
The CHP did not release the 23-year-old crash victim’s name on Monday pending the notification of family.
The agency’s reports said that at 7:50 a.m. Sunday, the CHP’s Ukiah Communication Center received a call of a vehicle crash on Highway 20, east of Walker Ridge Road, involving a possible fatality.
Northshore Fire personnel responded to the scene and confirmed the driver had died of her injuries, the CHP said.
When CHP officers arrived on scene, they determined it was a solo-vehicle crash that occurred during the hours of darkness, several hours before it was reported.
The CHP said the driver was traveling westbound on Highway 20 in a 2009 Subaru Forester when, for unknown reasons, the Subaru veered to the right of the roadway.
The Subaru hit an embankment, crossed the roadway to the south and went down another embankment, into the creek bed and overturned several times, the CHP said.
The CHP said the driver was wearing her seat belt and remained in the driver’s seat where she succumbed to the injuries she sustained during the wreck.
The Subaru was equipped with front and side air bags which deployed as a result of the crash, the CHP said.
So far, the CHP said it is unknown if drugs or alcohol were factors in the crash.
CHP investigating fatal weekend Highway 20 crash
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