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2 Cloverdale women killed in Geyserville crash

Published: Sunday, July 18, 2010 at 8:11 p.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, July 18, 2010 at 10:13 p.m.

Two Cloverdale women were killed and three other people injured Sunday evening in Geyserville when a woman suspected of driving drunk slammed her vehicle into their car.

The suspected DUI driver, identified as 27-year-old Lyndsay Murray-Mazany of San Francisco, was at the wheel of a Hyundai Santa Fe SUV with Kansas license plates southbound on Geyserville Avenue shortly after 5:30 p.m., said Sgt. Mike Brown of the CHP.

At a 90-degree curve in the road, she went straight, plowing into the side of another small SUV, a northbound Subaru Forester with five occupants.

The impact killed two of three adults seated in the rear of the Subaru, which was registered in Cloverdale, Brown said.

The identities of the victims was not released, pending notification of family. The other three adults in the Subaru were injured and taken, some by helicopter, to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospitals.

CHP officers on the scene after 9 p.m. were still trying to determine the identities of the killed and injured.

Broken glass covered the roadway as CHP officers and officials from the Sonoma County Coroner’s Office completed their investigation. Yellow tarps covered one body lying on the side of the road and another in the rear of the Subaru.

Murray-Mazany, who had a Kansas driver’s license, was evaluated at the scene and arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence. She was taken to the Sonoma County jail and booked on charges felony DUI and manslaughter. Bail was set at $100,000.

The emergency call went out at 5:37 p.m. for a crash between two vehicles on Geyserville Avenue just east of Highway 101. Fire crews were alerted to prepare to extract a victim from wreckage, according to the CHP.

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