A Grass Valley woman was killed Tuesday morning in a collision with a big rig on Highway 49 in Alta Sierra. CHP Officer Jason Bice says 48-year-old Tina Terrell was driving her pickup in the left lane of two uphill northbound lanes, just north of Alta Sierra Drive. That’s when she hit a deer that had run across the highway directly in front of her….

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The accident happened not long before sunrise….

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Bice says the crash also ruptured one of the big rig fuel tanks, causing around 100 gallons of diesel fuel to spill into a ditch. That kept the highway closed for about three and a half hours. The driver of the big rig, a man from Stockton, had minor injuries.