Two people from Nevada County are dead, and two were injured, after a two-vehicle crash on Highway 49 near the Nevada-Yuba County line late Wednesday morning. CHP Officer Greg Tassone says the driver of a Nissan Pathfinder, 20-year-old Zsophia Lighstep, of Dobbins, was southbound, near Marysville Road, in Yuba County, south of Camptonville. A 17-year-old female driver from Grass Valley, in a Toyota Scion, was approaching in the northbound direction of the two-lane stretch…

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Tassone says the driver of the Scion swerved into the opposite lane, to avoid being directly hit. But the two drivers still collided mostly head-on, with the Scion going about 20 feet down an embankment. The driver and two male passengers, 20 and 17 years old, were trapped inside…

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Meanwhile, Tassone says Lighstep had minor injuries, while the 17-year-old female driver, who was not wearing a seatbelt, had moderate injuries. One of the two passengers was also not wearing a seatbelt. The names of the other people involved in the crash have not been released yet.