This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Death Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JW.2ADE/7620 Message Board Post: Daily Independent newspaper Ridgecrest Ca Kern County December 27, 1992 LEANNE MCCOY A Lone Pine woman died Christmas day after her truck collided with another vehicle on Christmas Eve. Leanne McCoy, 40, was driving erratically when the accident occurred at about 5:45 pm acording to the California Highway Patrol in Bishop. The accident was on US Highway 395 almost 1.2 miles north of Moffat Ranch Road. McCoy was weaving from the right and left shoulders at speeds from 35 to 75 mph according to CHP. Her truck and a vehicle driven by Steve H. Shin, 42, of Los Angeles, collided after her truck swearved into his lane as he was southbound according to CHP> Shin had slowed down and tried to avoid the McCoy truck but the vehicle struck at the left headlight and McCoy's truck overturned. McCoy was taken to Southern Inyo Hospital and transferred to the Washoe Medical Center in Reno where she died at 3:30 am Christmas Day. A blood-alcohol test was ordered but the results have not yet been returned. Her passenged 8 year old Robby McCoy was not injured. Shin was taken to Southern Inyo Hospital and transferred to the intensive care unit at Loma Linda Medical Center. Two passengers - Wan Chae Ko, 40 and Suck Chan Kim, 31, both of Seoul, Korea, were treated at Southern Inyo Hospital and released. Everyone involved was wearing a seat belt.