The Highway Patrol is still investigating the fatal crash of an A-T-V that officials are calling a homicide. According to the report, 29 year-old Carlee D’Arata was driving at a high rate of speed on Old Coach Way near Lower Colfax Road Saturday evening, when she lost control of her all-terrain vehicle and went off the roadway. 31 year-old Antonette Thevenin was in the back seat and was not wearing a seat belt. She was ejected from the vehicle, which overturned and landed on top of her. Officer Greg Tassone says D’Arata fled the scene…
Thevinin was taken by medical helicopter to Sutter Roseville Trauma Center where she later died. Tassone says there were other passengers in the A-T-V that don’t appear to have been injured…
D’Arata was found a short time later and was determined to be severely intoxicated from alcohol. She also has a prior D-U-I conviction. Tassone says they are still interviewing witnesses, but D’Arata was booked into the Wayne Brown Correctional Facility on charges on felony D-U-I causing great bodily injury, and homicide.
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