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A Tuesday head-on vehicle collision on Highway 89 between Truckee and Lake Tahoe left two people dead, authorities say.
A 20-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman, both of whom were Berkeley residents, were pronounced dead at the scene of the wreck, which happened around 3:20 p.m. Tuesday near Cabin Creek Road, authorities said.
Neither person has been publicly identified by authorities, and officers have said that it could be a week or more before their names are released.
The deceased were in a 2014 Ford Fusion sedan driving northbound on Highway 89 when their vehicle veered across the double yellow line on the two-lane highway and struck a freightliner truck, according to California Highway Patrol Officer Jacob Williams.
Daughter of author Michael Lewis one of 2 killed in Tahoe car crash
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Dixie Lewis and Ross Schultz at her graduation from Berkeley High in 2020.Tabitha SorenShow MoreShow Less
The teenage daughter of Berkeley writer Michael Lewis and her boyfriend were both killed Tuesday in a head-on collision on State Route 89 outside of Truckee.
Dixie Lewis, 19, was a passenger in a 2014 Ford Fusion being driven by Ross Schultz, 20, also of Berkeley, when it crossed the center line traveling northbound and crashed into a Freightliner semi truck being driven southbound by a a 45-year-old man from Fernley, Nev. The accident happened around 3:30 p.m. on 89, which connects Truckee to Tahoe City, north of Cabin Creek Road.
, confirmed that she was the second person who died in the accident.
Lewis was the daughter of award-winning author and journalist Michael Lewis, who is perhaps best known for writing the book behind the 2011 movie “Moneyball.” Michael Lewis authored numerous other bestselling nonfiction works, including a book that inspired the 2009 football film “The Blindside.”
At the time of her death, Lewis had just finished her first year at Pomona College, where she played softball and was planning to pursue an education in neuroscience.
Schultz was about to start his third year at Cal Poly Pomona, where he had majored in kinesiology.