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28-year-old identified as driver killed in crash along Folsom's Rainbow Bridge

When Folsom Police officers arrived on the scene of the crash on Thursday, March 17, they found the driver deceased in a vehicle that had fallen down an embankment.

FOLSOM, Calif. — The Sacramento County Coroner's Office identified the driver killed in the crash along Folsom's Rainbow bridge as a 28-year-old woman.

The driver was identified as 28-year-old Megan Leanne Ramirez of Orangevale.

On Thursday, March 17, at around 9:15 a.m. the Folsom Police Department received a call about a vehicle crash on the Rainbow Bridge.

When officers arrived on the scene, they found the driver deceased in the vehicle that had fallen down an embankment.

Police said there were no witnesses and the 911 caller did not witness the crash as they had found the car at the bottom of the embankment during their walk along the bike trail Thursday morning. 

(Editor's Note: The original story reported the victim's age as 16. We have corrected the story to reflect the victim's actual age of 28.)

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