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Update on Triple Fatality Car Crash

Posted by Andy R. in Crime
January 26, 2006 at 1:44 pm

ABC7 has an update on the car crash from about six months ago:

ABC7 has learned that a horrific crash last summer is now being investigated as a homicide and the highway patrol is narrowing in on a suspect.

The crash killed three graduate students on I-80 in Berkeley last July in a fiery collision with a tanker truck.

The aftermath of the fiery collision in the early morning hours of July 16th. It was a big rig going westbound on Interstate 80 near Ashby Avenue suddenly veered out of control. The tractor trailer crashed through the center divider and jack-knifed, catching on fire.

A Toyota Corolla carrying three UC Berkeley graduate students crashed into the truck, exploding into flames, killing Giulia Adesso, Jason Choy and Benjamin Boussert…

ABC7 has learned that the CHP has now identified a suspect — a young man who they say was driving recklessly, speeding in and out of lanes, possibly racing with the driver of another car…

These two cars — a 1995 Chevy Camaro and a black 2002 Ford Taurus — were also damaged in the crash…

Capt. Jim Leonard, CHP: “Anybody who saw the specific actions of the Camaro or the Taurus that night is important to us. People who were with these people earlier that night? We believe these people were together earlier that night.”…

Meantime, the families have sued the state and the truck company….

If you happened to be there that night or if you know anything about the drivers of the Taurus or Camaro, call the highway patrol in Oakland at (510) 450-3821.

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  1. Look - BAMN is one of the groups the FBI has been spying on as suspected domestic terrorists

    http://www.aclu.org/safefree/spying/20246prs20050829.html

    Comment by . — January 28, 2006 @ 9:18 pm

  2. when you name your organization “By Any Means Necessary,” it doesn’t seem logical to rule violence out as one of the means they’ll consider in reaching their goals, and everyone’s heard the stories of their protests transforming into new orleans style looting sprees, so their presence on the fbi watch list is nothing surprising nor is it new news. the aclu website is for whining lesbians anyway, quit reading that stuff.

    Comment by roy nagen — January 29, 2006 @ 10:20 pm

  3. worst… blog… ever.

    Comment by dov — January 30, 2006 @ 8:38 am

  4. considering their repeated pillaging of the footlocker on telegraph, i would call “domestic terrorists” a pretty good description.

    Comment by chet — January 30, 2006 @ 9:06 am

  5. what if I’m a whining lesbian? Do you have a problem with them?

    Comment by . — January 30, 2006 @ 12:46 pm

  6. Warning: This post is ON-topic.

    “Meantime, the families have sued the state and the truck company.”

    Oh, wonderful. Neither the state nor the truck was to blame for this accident. Greedy families + greedy lawyers = higher taxes.

    If you MUST sue someone, how about suing the driver(s) who actually CAUSED the accident?

    Comment by Vermillion — January 30, 2006 @ 4:59 pm

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