LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – The Lake County Sheriff’s Office has identified the two men who died in separate crashes on Highway 20 last week.

The wrecks occurred late on Sunday, Oct. 27, on Highway 20 east of Clearlake Oaks and on the afternoon of Tuesday, Oct. 29, on Highway 20 east of Manzanita Drive in Nice, as Lake County News has reported.

The Oct. 27 solo-vehicle wreck claimed the life of AJ Hee, 25, of Selma.

Hee was riding as a passenger in a 2006 Toyota Scion driven by 20-year-old Brandon Sadler of Bakersfield when Sadler lost control in a turn. The Toyota hit an embankment before rolling multiple times, according to the California Highway Patrol.

The CHP said Hee was not wearing his seat belt and was pronounced dead at the scene. Sadler was transported to Adventist Health in Clearlake to treatment of minor injuries.

On Oct. 29, a head-on wreck between a van and a semi claimed the life of Bruno Antonio Montero, 66, whose address was given as Oakley by the CHP but as Lucerne by the sheriff’s office.

The CHP said Montero was driving a white 2002 Ford E250 van eastbound when it veered left over a double left-turn lane and into the westbound lane, directly into the path of the Peterbilt semi-truck driven by 48-year-old David Jones, 48, of Ukiah.

Montero died at the scene and Jones was transported to Sutter Lakeside Hospital for treatment of minor injuries, the CHP said.

Both Jones and Montero were wearing their seat belts, according to the CHP.

The CHP said that neither drugs nor alcohol were suspected of being contributing factors in the either of the crashes.

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