LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The Lake County Sheriff's Office has released the name of a Lucerne man who was fatally injured in a vehicle crash on Wednesday afternoon near Nice.
Lt. Steve Brooks said the man who died was James Craig McDonald, 65.
The California Highway Patrol said McDonald was driving a 2000 Toyota eastbound on the Nice-Lucerne Cutoff east of Westlake Drive at 1:45 p.m. Wednesday, with his wife, 60-year-old Dana McDonald riding as his passenger, when the crash occurred.
The CHP said 63-year-old Michael Thompson of Lakeport was driving a 2001 Dodge pickup westbound when the vehicle drifted off the right side of the road.
Thompson overcorrected, crossed the double-yellow lines and broadsided McDonald's Toyota, causing it to roll over, the CHP said.
James McDonald was pronounced dead at the scene, his wife was flown to a regional trauma center and Thompson was uninjured, the CHP said.
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Sheriff's office identifies victim of fatal Wednesday crash
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