- Elizabeth Larson
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CHP reports on Sunday four-vehicle crash
KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – A crash on Sunday morning that involved four vehicles sent a Kelseyville woman to a regional trauma center.
Thirty-year-old Melanie Bucher sustained moderate injuries in the crash, which occurred at 9 a.m. Sunday at the Kit's Corner intersection, located at the junction of Highway 29 at Highway 281, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The CHP said 33-year-old Ukiah resident Keith Quigley was traveling northbound on Highway 29 in a 2006 Toyota Tundra pickup when he failed to stop for a red light at the intersection. Instead, he applied the brakes and turned the vehicle to the right.
Bucher was headed southbound on Highway 29 in a 2001 Toyota Corolla and had stopped in the left turn lane to Highway 281, the CHP said.
The light turned green for Bucher to make a left turn, which she proceeded to do. The CHP said while she was making the turn Quigley failed to stop for the red light, went through the intersection and hit the right side of Bucher's vehicle.
The impact pushed Bucher's vehicle into a 2004 Jeep Wrangler driven by Natalie Levchenko, 52, of Kelseyville, who the CHP said was stopped for a red light, facing west, on Highway 281.
Quigley's pickup continued forward and hit Levchenko's Jeep, with the Jeep being pushed out of its traffic lane in a northeast direction, the CHP said. Bucher's Corolla came to rest next to the Jeep.
The CHP said Quigley continued forward and hit the front of a fourth vehicle, a 2013 Toyota Prius, driven by 26-year-old Alisha Hazelton of Hayward. Hazelton had been stopped behind Levchenko on Highway 281.
All four vehicles required a tow truck due to the extent of damage to each one, the CHP said.
Quigley, Levchenko and Hazelton were not injured, the CHP said.
Bucher was flown to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital due to facial cuts and for further evaluation by medical personnel, according to the CHP.
The report from responding CHP officers Dan Frederick and Greg Buchholz concluded that alcohol was not a factor in this collision.
All four drivers were wearing their seat belts, the report stated.
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