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Jul 29, 2004 | 05:35 PM

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accident on 680 south

a few miles before the 87 interchange.
some blue small car (geo metro maybe?) with some of his engine bay crushed into itself facing the center divider. i was going to stop and help. but 5-7 cars had already stopped on the left shoulder 2 cars on the right shoulder and a lady told me the cops had been called so I just left.

hope nobody got injured too bad or killed. but i dunno. =\

Jul 29, 2004 | 05:47 PM

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agh. that's always shocking. i always feel really sick when i see stuff like that. i tried calling CHP while driving home on i-5 on sunday to get someone out there for a car that lost its tire... i'm pretty sure they didnt have a cell phone but it's almost IMPOSSIBLE to get connected to someone when you're in the middle of nowhere. i got hung up on by four different police stations before i was even able to tell them where it was. pff. i hope those guys got their car fixed. they had kids and it was 108 degrees. yuck.

Jul 29, 2004 | 05:50 PM

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http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/...9252287.htm?1c

that happened on 680S on monday....4 people died

I drove past it like 15 minutes after it happened, cops were already at the scene though...the 5th person got ejected out of the car and survived

Jul 29, 2004 | 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by 02BlackWRX

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/...9252287.htm?1c

that happened on 680S on monday....4 people died

I drove past it like 15 minutes after it happened, cops were already at the scene though...the 5th person got ejected out of the car and survived

i drove by it too

Jul 29, 2004 | 08:21 PM

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I work with the guy whose daughter was the survivor. The doctors and the coroner are saying it's a miracle she survived. She has a "closed head injury" from g forces that caused intracranial bleeding, which is why they put her into the coma. They brought her out of the coma and she was sitting up and talking last night. She has a broken jaw, wrist, ribs, punctured lung, and a lot of small wounds that required stitches. She is going to have a few surgeries yet but they are saying she will recover fully. Say a prayer for the other kids in the car though.

Jul 30, 2004 | 07:55 AM

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i also drove by. literally minutes after it happened i think cause there was barely any traffic. (still going ~50 mph). the ambulance that actuallly arrived at the scene was about 15 cars ahead of me. since the traffic wasnt bad i didnt think anything of it and actually didnt even look at the accident. the cops were already there. according to the news the kids in the car might have been drinking since the cops found a few empty alcohol containers in the car

Jul 30, 2004 | 05:36 PM

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Can someone quote the story so I dont have to sign up?

Jul 30, 2004 | 08:38 PM

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I-680 crash kills four

Girl survives grisly Pleasant Hill accident

By Kelli Phillips

CONTRA COSTA TIMES

PLEASANT HILL - Four people were killed and a girl critically injured in an accident on Interstate 680 when a car was torn in half after slamming into the back of a parked moving van Monday night.

Around 7:15 p.m., a 1998 Chevrolet Cavalier hit a moving van that was stopped on the right shoulder of southbound Interstate 680, just north of the Treat Boulevard exit.

Witnesses said the Cavalier was driving erratically when the driver suddenly lost control and spun into the back of the 1999 California New York Express moving van, police said.

Three men and one woman in the Cavalier were killed instantly. A second female passenger was ejected from the car and thrown under the moving van.

Matt Randolph, 18, was in his back yard on Esther Drive, which backs up to Contra Costa Boulevard and I-680, when he heard the crash.

"It was the biggest crashing sound you can imagine, with glass breaking and metal scraping," Randolph said.

Randolph ran with his father to the accident scene, where he climbed the retaining wall onto the freeway. After seeing no signs of life in the passengers in the car, Randolph saw the girl laying under the van.

"I climbed under the van and she was barely breathing," he said. "I tried to talk to her, ask her name, but she couldn't talk. I just grabbed her hand and told her to stay with me until the paramedics got there."

The unidentified juvenile girl was flown to John Muir Medical Center in critical condition but was expected to survive, a CHP spokesman said.

Police say the 27-year-old driver of the moving van had pulled over to check the strap on the back door and had just gotten back into the vehicle when it was hit by the Cavalier.

The driver of the van and his two passengers were not injured in the accident.

California Highway Patrol Officer Tom Maguire said it was unknown if drugs or alcohol played a role in the accident. The cause is under investigation.

The names and ages of the victims were unknown. Autopsies are scheduled for today.