MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – A Middletown woman died and two Lakeport men were seriously injured in a Thursday evening head-on crash near Middletown.
Lottie Marie Cline, 63, died in the Thursday night wreck, according to the California Highway Patrol’s Clear Lake Area office.
Two Lakeport men, Roberto C. V. Gonzalez, 39, and Victor M. Villaneuva, 32, were in the other vehicle involved in the crash and suffered moderate injuries, the CHP said.
The agency said that just before 6:30 p.m. Thursday Cline was driving a 2006 Honda Odyssey minivan southbound on Highway 29 north of Butts Canyon Road while Gonzalez was driving a 2005 Ford F-350 pickup northbound in the same location.
The CHP said Cline’s Honda crossed over the highway’s solid double-yellow lines and collided head-on with the pickup Gonzalez was driving.
Cline died at the scene of the injuries she sustained in the wreck, authorities reported.
Gonzalez and Villaneuva were flown by REACH air ambulances to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital for treatment of their injuries, according to the CHP and reports from the scene.
The CHP said Cline, Gonzalez and Villaneuva were all wearing their seat belts.
Neither drugs nor alcohol are suspected to be factors in the wreck, which the CHP said remains under investigation.
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Middletown woman identified as victim in fatal Thursday wreck; two men suffer injuries
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