Rio Vista fatal crash: Swerving automobile hit vacationers’ SUV, law enforcement say

A crash that killed 4 people on a Rio Vista highway concerned a swerving vehicle and an SUV carrying vacationers, the city’s law enforcement division mentioned. Ingesting is getting investigated as a probable variable.

6 other people today ended up wounded in the crash, at 8:12 p.m. Wednesday on Freeway 12 around Rio Vista’s western edge.

In accordance to the law enforcement report, a Honda Accord carrying a few individuals was westbound on the highway east of Summerset Street when it veered off the ideal shoulder. The driver overcorrected, and the motor vehicle entered the eastbound lane, exactly where it strike a Chevrolet Suburban head-on.

All 3 men and women in the Honda have been killed the driver and the rear passenger had been ejected from the automobile.

The Chevrolet was carrying seven people today on getaway from Mexico. Just one was killed, and the some others injured.

The girl killed in the Chevrolet was discovered as Laura Poiret, in her 70s. Two of people hurt had been girls, just one 8 decades old and the other 13 to 15.

Individuals in the Honda were the 20-year-aged Rancho Cordova guy who was driving, a 19-yr-previous Vacaville girl and one more female of about the exact same age. Their names have not been introduced.

Rio Vista law enforcement have not still built a definitive willpower of driving beneath the affect but they report that there were “numerous” open alcoholic beverage containers in and close to the Honda.

The pace limit on that stretch of two-lane highway is 50 mph. The road has a raised centre strip and “delineator” sticks, meant to help protect against motorists from drifting into oncoming targeted traffic.

The crash web site is about 300 yards east of the entrance to the Trilogy subdivision.