Roseville couple killed in Hwy. 70 crash mourned in fundraiser for their children
A man and woman from Roseville were identified Tuesday as the two people killed in a head-on collision Friday on Highway 70 in Yuba County.
Puneet Singh Sohi and Premjeet Brar, both 41, were named as the victims in the crash that happened just after 3 p.m. north of Boyer Road, between Yuba City and Oroville by the sheriff’s offices in Yuba and Butte counties. The victims were examined by separate county medical examiners following the crash, authorities said.
Sohi and Brar were traveling northbound on the highway in a Honda CR-V with two children — an 8-year-old girl and a 4-year-old boy — when a southbound Toyota Camry veered into their lane and struck the SUV, according to the California Highway Patrol’s Yuba-Sutter office.
Both children and the motorists in the Camry — identified as a man and a woman, both 18 — were hospitalized with major injuries, according to the CHP.
Sohi and Brar were mourned in a GoFundMe page raising money to support their children, whom the page identified as the couple’s 8-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son.
Sohi “was an IT engineer, dedicated and hardworking with a passion for Punjabi dance bhangra,” read the fundraising page managed by Narinder Mahal of Roseville.
State records show Brar as a licensed dentist. The fundraiser refers to her as Veenu, calling her “a young pediatric dentist bringing smiles and health to wonderful children in need.” Brar, who worked at a dental practice in Rocklin, was also a member of Rocklin Academy Gateway’s parent-school partnership.
“She was deeply loved by her patients and community for her gentle, caring nature,” the GoFundMe page says.
The online fundraiser had received more than 1,800 donations totaling over $400,000, of its $1 million goal, by 4 p.m. Tuesday.
