LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The Lake County Sheriff's Office has released the name of a Bay Area woman who died of her injuries following a solo-vehicle crash on Sunday evening.
Lt. Steve Brooks identified the woman as Maki Mitsuya, 35, of Palo Alto.
The California Highway Patrol had previously said Mitsuya was from Oakland.
Mitsuya was riding as the passenger in a 1996 Honda Accord driven by Ioan C. Gruia, 31, of San Francisco when the crash occurred shortly after 6 p.m. Sunday on Highway 29 south of the Hill Road undercrossing, as Lake County News has reported.
Gruia, who was driving southbound on Highway 29 at an undetermined speed, allowed the Honda to drift off the roadway and onto the dirt center median, the CHP said.
The CHP said Gruia overcorrected and lost control of the car, which skidded across the highway, hit a raised curb and a dirt embankment, rolled multiple times and then went down a dirt embankment, landing on its roof.
Mitsuya was pronounced dead at the scene, while Gruia was flown to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital with minor injuries, according to the CHP.
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Authorities identify Bay Area woman killed in Sunday crash
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