CHP: Wrong-Way Driver In Stolen Truck Causes Deadly Crash In Olivehurst

OLIVEHURST (CBS13) — A wrong-way operator successful a stolen motortruck is successful custody astatine a infirmary aft a head-on clang killed 2 radical successful Olivehurst, the California Highway Patrol announced connected Thursday.

Chase P. Hammonds, 25, of Los Molinos successful Tehama County, suffered a fractured limb successful the clang and was awaiting aesculapian clearance earlier being booked into jail.

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The CHP said the clang happened Wednesday day on Highway 70. Deputies were pursuing the stolen motortruck arsenic Hammonds was initially driving successful the incorrect lanes on Highway 65 approaching Highway 70.

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Hammonds yet was driving northbound successful the southbound lanes of Highway 70 erstwhile helium collided head-on with a Dodge Durango. The occupants of the Durango—Marysville residents Deanna Hernandez, 36, and Cary T. Ojeda, 55—both died astatine the hospital.

During the collision, a trailer that was being pulled by the stolen motortruck struck a 3rd vehicle, though the operator of that conveyance was uninjured.

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After the crash, Hammonds attempted to get distant connected ft but was arrested a abbreviated portion later, the CHP said.

CBS13 Staff