LUCERNE, Calif. – The California Highway Patrol on Friday issued an initial report on a fatal single-vehicle wreck in Lucerne on Thursday afternoon.
The crash, which occurred at approximately 3:16 p.m. on Highway 20 at Grove Street, claimed the life of the female driver, whose name, age and city of residence were being withheld by the CHP until next of kin are notified.
The CHP said the woman was driving her 2007 Buick westbound on Highway 20 approaching Grove Street while traveling at an undetermined high rate of speed for the existing roadway conditions.
As she exited a sweeping left curve in the roadway, the CHP said the woman allowed her vehicle to travel across the double yellow lines, into the eastbound lane.
She then turned the Buick to the right, losing control of the vehicle, and going off the north road edge, according to the CHP report.
There, the CHP said she hit a series of tree located in front of the Sandy Beach Trailer Lodge trailer park.
After hitting the trees, the CHP said the Buick was propelled up and over a 6-foot-high wooden outbuilding and then hit two separate structures – a singlewide mobile home and a travel trailer.
Though the residents of the mobile and the trailer were at home at the time of the crash, neither were injured, the CHP said. Both structures sustained minimal to moderate damage.
The Buick was found on its wheels between the mobile, the trailer and the wooden outbuilding, the CHP said.
The CHP said emergency personnel arriving at the crash site attempted life-saving measures, but the driver – who had not been wearing her seat belt at the time of the crash – died at the scene of multiple blunt force trauma.
It's unknown if drugs or alcohol were factors in the crash, the CHP said.
Officer Rob Hearn is the crash's investigating officer.
In the video above, Ray Hechim, whose singlewide mobile home was hit in the crash, describes his experience during the incident.
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CHP reports on fatal Lucerne wreck
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