Crime & Safety
Woman Dies From Injuries In U.S. 101 Wrong-Way Crash
Authorities are accusing a Healdsburg man of DUI in the head-on collision that injured five people, one of whom has now died.
SONOMA COUNTY, CA — A Forestville woman who was critically injured early Sunday morning in a head-on collision involving a wrong-way driver on U.S. Highway 101 near Healdsburg has died and was identified by Sonoma County sheriff's officials as 50-year-old Katherine Pisesky.
Pisesky was driving a 2015 Volkswagen Beetle south on Highway 101 at Westside Road around 12:55 a.m. Sunday when she was struck by a 2016 Ford Focus that was traveling north in the southbound lanes, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The Ford driver, Hector Omar Cisneros-Ramirez, 37, of Healdsburg, was arrested on suspicion of DUI causing injury before Pisesky died at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital.
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He was scheduled to be arraigned in Sonoma County Superior Court on Tuesday.
Three people in a 2018 GMC Sierra that also was struck by the Ford suffered minor injuries, as did Cisneros-Ramirez, CHP officials said.
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Pisesky, a Sutter Health Medical Foundation nurse practitioner at Sutter Lakeside Hospital in Lake County and in Santa Rosa since 2016, was from Edmonton, Alberta, according to her Facebook page.
By Bay City News Service
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