RENO, Nev. (AP) - The Nevada Highway Patrol is investigating the cause of a head-on crash that claimed the life of a 72-year-old woman on U.S. Highway 95-A in Silver Springs over the weekend.
The victim, Jacqulyn Cook of Silver Springs, was driving southbound in a 2001 Dodge Ram 1500 pickup that crashed into a northbound commercial truck on Sunday, the patrol said Wednesday.
A preliminary investigation indicates she failed to slow for a black 2014 Nissan Titan pickup that was waiting to turn left from the highway onto Quince Avenue in Silver Springs..
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She apparently was trying to avoid a collision with that pickup when she left the roadway, then overcorrected, steering back onto the path of the white 2015 Peterbilt and collided head-on, the patrol said.
Cook died at the scene. No other serious injuries were reported.
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