For the second time in recent weeks, a 17-year-old driver has sparked an accident on Highway 49 in Nevada County. CHP Officer Mike Steele says Wayde Cornell of Grass Valley was driving a blue 1992 GMC pickup southbound, late Thursday afternoon, at about 60 miles an hour, toward the McKnight Way intersection…

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Steele says the driver of the Jetta then hit a Cal Trans construction zone sign…

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Steele says Cornell then collided with a third vehicle, a red 2004 GMC pickup. The driver of the Taurus that went down the embankment, 60-year-old Nancy Orth, from the state of Maryland, was flown to Sutter Roseville Hospital with what turned out to be minor injuries. There were also minor injuries to Cornell and the driver of the Jetta, 74-year-old Robert Joenck of Auburn, as well as the driver of the red pickup, Margo Casselberry of Grass Valley, who is also 74 years old.