(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – Officials with the Yuba County Sheriff’s Department identified 73-year-old Gail Anne Maciel of Wheatland as the woman who died in a head-on collision Tuesday morning on State Route 65 near Wheatland.

According to the CHP Yuba-Sutter office, deputies were dispatched at about 6:09 a.m. Tuesday to an area of State Route 65 south of Oakley Lane regarding a traffic collision. Upon arrival, CHP deputies determined that Maciel was driving northbound on State Route 65 when for “unknown reasons she allowed her vehicle to travel over the solid, painted double yellow lines.” Maciel entered the southbound lane of State Route 65 and the front of her vehicle collided head on with a vehicle driven by 22-year-old Eleazar Perez-Reyez of Marysville.

As a result of the collision, Maciel suffered fatal injuries and Perez-Reyez suffered “moderate injuries” and lost consciousness. The investigation into the cause of the accident will continue.