IDs released of those involved in fatal crash

It will be up to the El Dorado County District Attorney’s Office if charges are filed in the death of Skye Melzer.

The 21-year-old South Lake Tahoe woman was the passenger on a motorcycle that was hit by a truck on Highway 50 on July 5.

Melzer died at Renown Medical Center in Reno from her injuries.

Michael Cearley, 54, of South Lake Tahoe was turning left from the highway onto Modesto Avenue when he struck the motorcycle what was driven by Harrison Russel, 23, of South Lake Tahoe, according to officers. Russel sustained minor injuries and was treated at Barton Memorial Hospital; Cearley was not injured.

Alcohol and drugs were not a factor, nor was weather, according to officers.

— Lake Tahoe News staff report