LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — Authorities have released the names of two more people killed in crashes on Lake County’s highways in the past week.
The Lake County Sheriff’s Office identified the 90-year-old man who was hit by a truck on Highway 29 north of Seigler Canyon Road early Tuesday morning as Kenneth John Beech of Kelseyville.
Beech was crossing the highway on foot when he was hit and killed by a semi truck whose driver didn’t see him.
On Monday, a head-on crash on Highway 20 east of Witter Springs Road near Upper Lake killed two people.
So far, one of them has been identified — Evaristo Hernandez Hernandez, 43, of Ukiah, who was a passenger in a pickup driven by a driver who is believed to have been under the influence of alcohol.
The driver of the other vehicle, who also died, has not yet been identified.
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