UPDATE: Officials release names of fatal Tuesday crash victims

By Editor | Jul 3, 2012

LOWER LAKE, Calif. – The Lake County Sheriff’s Office on Tuesday afternoon released the names of two men who died earlier in the day from injuries they suffered in a car wreck on Highway 29.

Sgt. Steve Brooks identified the two men as Randy Alton Orange, 53, of Clearlake Oaks, and 28-year-old Kenneth Jeffery Waters of Kelseyville.

Orange and Waters were riding in a 1999 Chevy Tahoe driven by 26-year-old Dylan Waters of Clearlake Oaks at 2:40 a.m. Tuesday when the crash occurred north of Diener Drive.

Dylan Waters lost control of the vehicle in a curve and went off the road, hitting an oak tree, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Orange was pronounced dead at the scene while Kenneth Waters was flown by a CalStar air ambulance to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital, where he died, the CHP reported.

Dylan Waters had minor injuries and was treated at St. Helena Hospital Clearlake.

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