YUBA COUNTY, Calif. — The California Highway Patrol is investigating after a wrong-way accident left an Olivehurst 18-year-old dead Tuesday night.
According to an accident report, officers were sent to an accident on SR-99 near Live Oak Boulevard just before 8 p.m.
They got to the scene and found the driver of a 2006 Toyota Solara, an 18-year-old from Olivehurst, was going south in the northbound lane of Highway 99 when he collided head-on with a U-Haul moving van going north.
The driver of the Solara was pronounced dead from his injuries. The U-Haul overturned and the two people inside were injured but able to get out.
California Highway Patrol says DUI is believed to be a factor in the crash.
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