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Two Serious Injuries After Hwy 49 Head-On Crash

Posted: Jun. 19, 2023 2:49 PM PDT

Two serious injuries, after a two-vehicle crash on Highway 49 near Grass Valley around the noon hour on Monday. CHP Officer Jason Bice says it happened on a two-lane stretch near Mack Road, south of McKnight Road. The drivers were 57-year-old Kristi Mathews, of Berkeley, and 68-year-old Wesley Besaw, of Grass Valley. There were no other passengers. And Bice says it appears that Mathews was at fault…

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Bice says Mathews had major, unspecified, internal injuries and Besaw may have had a broken leg. Both had to be flown to Sutter-Roseville Medical Center…

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Bice says it’s a dangerous spot, with not much shoulder width and little room for error.

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