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Thursday, March 20, 2014A teenage boy was killed and a teenage girl was critically injured after they were hit by a freight train while walking to a high school dance in Northern California Friday evening, authorities said.
The accident happened near Marysville's only high school and a little league park where a game was being played, CalFire Capt. Dennis Hunt said.
The boy, later identified as Mateus Gabriel Moore, 16, died at the scene and the girl, later identified as Mickayla Friend, was airlifted to hospital with traumatic injuries, Hunt said.
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Monday, March 3, 2014A Nevada City man died Tuesday night in a head-on crash on Highway 20 in the Penn Valley area.
The collision occurred about 8:18 p.m. on Highway 20 near Pleasant Valley Road. California Highway Patrol spokesman Officer Greg Tassone said a 1995 Jeep Wrangler was eastbound on Highway 20 approaching a line of westbound vehicles, when the Jeep for unknown reasons drifted over the double yellow center lines. It sideswiped a 1970 Chevrolet Chevelle, causing the driver of the Jeep to lose control of the vehicle.
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Monday, February 17, 2014A 57-year-old Colusa woman died this afternoon in a collision on Highway 99 in Sutter County.
The collision occurred about 4:05 p.m. According to the California Highway Patrol, a 19-year-old Yuba City man was driving a 2002 Ford Escape eastbound on O’Banion Road, south of Yuba City, approaching Highway 99, and failed to stop at the stop sign. He entered Highway 99 directly in the path of a southbound 2004 Chevrolet Impala.