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Off-duty Calif. EMT killed by hit and run driver

Kelsi Rai Carr was the passenger on a motorcycle driven by her co-worker and boyfriend when they were hit by a pickup

By Ann Powers
Plumas County News

PLUMAS COUNTY, Calif. — The search continues for a driver who fled the scene of an accident that killed 23-year-old Kelsi Rai Carr, an Eastern Plumas Health Care emergency medical technician, and seriously injured her co-worker and boyfriend, Nathan Ashley Hanks, age 28, according to Yuba-Sutter California Highway Patrol officials.

Authorities said the collision happened when the couple, both of Meridian, was riding a 2006 Yamaha motorcycle traveling westbound on Highway 20 east of Lytle Road at about 9:45 p.m. June 3. Hanks was driving the bike and Carr was a passenger.

A pickup traveling south on Lytle Road made a left turn onto eastbound Highway 20. During the turn, the motorcycle hit the left rear of the pickup and Carr was thrown from the bike, stated reports.

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