Motorcyclist identified in fatal crash near Ukiah

A motorcyclist killed Saturday when a suspected DUI driver crashed into her motorcycle was identified as a Pacheco woman.|
RANDI ROSSMANN
THE PRESS DEMOCRAT

The woman killed Saturday afternoon when a man suspected of driving drunk crashed into her motorcycle was Ingrid Fedje, 56, of Pacheco, according to the Mendocino County Coroner’s Office.

Fedje died at the scene of the 5 p.m. crash on Highway 20, about eight miles east of Fort Bragg.

CHP officers said pickup driver Jesse Bourdeaux, 28, of Dos Rios, was headed toward Ukiah when his Ford moved across the double yellow line into the westbound lane. The truck struck Fedje’s 2016 Beta motorcycle.

Bourdeaux wasn’t injured. Officers arrested him on suspicion of two felonies, gross vehicular manslaughter with intoxication and drunken driving causing injuries. He remained in the Mendocino County Jail Monday with bail set at $200,000.

- Randi Rossmann

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