The Santa Clara County coroner released the identities of the victims: Tyler Tolentino Rasay, 28, a resident of South San Francisco Paul August Dennig Jr. , 24, a resident of Mountain View Nicacio Negrete Gutierrez, 53, a resident of Sunnyvale
The crash and investigation shut down the highway in both directions between Fair Oaks Avenue and Lawrence Expressway for several hours.
At about 12:30 a.m., the driver of a pickup truck travelling northbound on the highway lost control and slammed into the center median, setting off a series of additional collisions, Lee said. Three people who got out of their cars following the initial collisions were struck and killed by other vehicles, the CHP believes.Sign up for NBC Bay Area’s Housing Deconstructed newsletter."After the initial collision where we had the initial pickup truck that crashed into the center median, at least one or two vehicles collided with that vehicle or debris that came out of the pickup truck," Lee said.
Two of the people struck on the highway were sent over the median wall and into the southbound lanes. The third person ended up in the northbound lanes.
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