Updated: Two Women Dead In Vallejo Parking Lot Crash

UPDATE 11:15AM TUESDAY

VALLEJO - Vallejo police have identified two women who died in a solo vehicle crash near City Hall on Sunday afternoon.

The 1998 maroon Toyota Camry crashed into a retaining wall in a rear parking lot at a business at 601 Sacramento St. around 3:15 p.m., Lt. Mike Nichelini said.

The driver, Carmen Fernandez Garcia, 72, was taken to John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, where she died.

Lourdes Artuz, 88, the right front passenger, was not wearing a seatbelt and was pronounced dead at the scene, Nichelini said. Both women were Vallejo residents.

The Toyota was traveling south and failed to negotiate a left turn before crashing into the cement wall.

The cause of the crash is still under investigation but drugs or alcohol do not appear to be a factor in the crash, Nichelini said.

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VALLEJO - Two people are dead after a solo vehicle collision Sunday afternoon in Vallejo, according to Vallejo police officials.

Officers responded at 3:17 p.m. to reports of a vehicle collision at a rear parking lot at 601 Sacramento St.

Upon arrival, police said they located a 1998 Toyota Camry that had struck a cement wall surrounding the lot and the two people inside were critically injured.

The right front passenger, an unidentified female, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

The driver, a 72-year-old female Vallejo resident, was transported by air to a local hospital where she succumbed to her injures.

According to police, the vehicle was traveling south in the parking lot and failed to make the proper left turn before leaving the roadway and colliding with the cement wall.

Police said drugs or alcohol do not appear to be a factor in this incident, and the collision is still under investigation.

-Bay City News