2 bodies pulled from delta after crash, infant in critical condition

This story originally appeared on KCRA.

COURTLAND, Calif. — At least two people died Thursday afternoon after a vehicle submerged into the water in Solano County, officials said. The California Highway Patrol said five female occupants from Stockton were in the vehicle, one of them being a 3-month-old infant and a nearly 2-year-old toddler. The two people who died were identified by the coroner’s office as 47-year-old Yolanda De La Cruz Rivas and 49-year-old Isabel Diaz Ramirez. 

There was also a 24-year-old in the vehicle, officials said. The infant was flown to UC Davis Medical Center and is in critical condition. The 24-year-old and the toddler were also taken to the hospital. All of them were related somehow, but those details were not shared.

Fire crews from Yolo and Solano County were in the Sutter Slough by Holland and Sutter Island Roads near the Courtland area.

A man who did not want to speak on camera identified himself as a supervisor for the two women and told KCRA 3 that they were farmworkers in the nearby fields who usually got off work around 2:30 p.m. The circumstances of the crash remain unknown, and officials say alcohol is not believed to be a factor.

CHP Solano says the only witness they have is the 24-year-old woman who was in the back seat with the two surviving children at the time of the crash, but she has yet to be interviewed as she recovers in the hospital. The vehicle has been removed from the river and kept for processing while an investigation continues.