Coroner Identifies Sonoma Mother, Daughter Killed In Hwy 12 Crash

SONOMA VALLEY, CA — The Sonoma County Sheriff-Coroner's Office identified a mother and daughter killed in one of two fatal crashes Monday morning on state Highway 12 as Sonoma residents Alondra Brandt Valero, 21, and Tomasa Valero Vargas, 44.

Californa Highway Patrol officers were sent at 8:20 a.m. to the crash east of Oakmont Drive, where they found two involved vehicles: a Nissan Sentra and a Chevrolet truck, CHP Officer David deRutte said in a news release.

CHP's initial investigation indicated the Nissan driver, later identified as Alondra Valero Brandt, was traveling westbound on SR-12 while the Chevrolet was traveling on the eastbound side of the highway when Brandt lost control on a curve and crossed into the opposite lane.

"The Nissan was sideways in the lane and directly in the path of the Chevrolet," deRutte said. "The front of the Chevrolet collided into the right side of the Nissan."

Brandt and her mother, now identified as Tomasa Valero Vargas, suffered fatal injuries and were pronounced dead at the scene, deRutte said.

The driver of the truck, a 60-year-old Santa Rosa man, was taken to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital for treatment of moderate injuries.

In a separate collision minutes later on Highway 12 west of Santa Rosa, a 32-year-old Sebastopol man died in a collision involving four vehicles near Merced Avenue.

Anyone with information about the fatal crash is asked to call the Santa Rosa CHP Office at 707-588-1400.

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