(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – A 24-year-old Wheatland woman has been arrested on suspicion of the DUI death of a motorcyclist Tuesday night. The Wheatland Police Chief tells The Appeal-Democrat that Clara Ann Delong was driving a ford pickup east on Spenceville Road just west of Jasper Lane, turning left into a driveway, directly in front of a westbound Harley rider, colliding with it. The chief tells the paper Delong fled the scene on foot, but was apprehended a short time later in her residence. She was arrested for DUI-alcohol.
Delong’s bail is set at at half-a-million-dollars and the name of the deceased motorcycle rider has not yet been released.