An 18 year old California girl died tragically Tuesday in a nightmarish scenario on a lonely stretch of Nevada’s I-80.
Michalea Vines, age 18, from Antelope California was traveling east with her family when a fight began and escalated to the point the car pulled over and Vines and her mother left the vehicle shortly after midnight Tuesday morning
“We have all been there,” said NHP spokesman Jim Stewart. “You get into a fight while driving and either the passenger demands to get out of the car or the driver demands the passenger get out.”
Shrouded in the dense fog common to the Northern Nevada winter, Vines and her mother began walking the four miles to Lovelock.
Seeing lights behind them the young woman stepped into the travel lane to flag down a passing vehicle. Tragically the driver of the vehicle, a Ford F 150 Pickup did not see Vines until it was too late. Vines was struck and died. The driver of the truck Jose Contreras, age 48, from Winnemucca, immediately pulled over pulled over and rendered first aid to Vines.
According interviews with the survivors Vines may have been drinking.
