A 16-year-old girl was killed Sunday morning in a chain-reaction crash on Interstate Highway 880 in San Leandro after she was thrown from a BMW and struck by an oncoming box truck, authorities said. A 19-year-old driver was later arrested at his home and is facing multiple allegations, including accusations that he was intoxicated when the crash occurred.
The BMW 535i sedan was traveling northbound on I-880 and struck a Honda Accord just after 11 a.m. During the collision, the teenage girl, who was riding in the rear seat, was ejected from the BMW and then hit by the box truck. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
The BMW driver and a juvenile passenger fled after the wreck, leaving another injured person inside the car. That person was taken to a hospital, along with the driver of the Honda Accord. The crash involved multiple vehicles on the busy freeway and left several people hurt, but no one has yet been publicly identified.
The arrest at the driver's home closes one part of the case, but not the one that matters most to the family and the people injured on the freeway: whether the allegations of intoxication will be proved and what charges follow from a crash that turned a Sunday morning drive into a death scene in seconds.