(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – CHP Yuba-Sutter reports a wrong-way suspected DUI fatal head-on collision just after midnight Wednesday. It occurred on HWY 99 just south of the Yuba City limits.
Witnesses tell investigators a Honda Accord, driven by 27-year-old Jonathon Merin Quiroz was driving south in the northbound lanes and collided head-on with a Honda Pilot, killing the driver, a 63-year-old Yuba City man, whose name has not been released at this time.
Quiroz was taken by air to U.C. Davis Medical Center with major injuries and arrested for DUI and vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated.
A passenger of his, 25-year-old Macario Per, was taken by Bi-County Ambulance to Adventist-Rideout