Schultz's Ford crossed into the southbound lanes, hitting the Freightliner head on. Schultz and Lewis were killed.
"We loved her so much and are in a kind of pain none of us has experienced," Michael Lewis said in a statement. "She loved Ross, with whom she died." "She loved to live and our hearts are so broken they can't find the words to describe the feeling. Her mother, Tabitha, and I, and her brother Walker and sister Quinn are going to find ways for her memory to live in her absence."
Juan Raygoza, principal of Berkeley High School, where the two young people went to school, said, "Berkeley High School alumni Dixie Lewis and Ross Schultz were each amazing human beings and will both be missed in deep and lasting ways in our school community.