The Santa Clara County Coroner's Office has confirmed a second fatality in the June 18 accident on Highway 152 involving a car that slammed under a big-rig trailer while its driver was attempting a U-turn.
The female driver of the 2006 Dodge Charger, 19-year-old Gurvinder Chahal of Ceres, died on Tuesday, according to the coroner's office. One male passenger of the vehicle, 18-year-old Simardeep Bhatia of Turlock, died on the scene that morning. Another passenger in the Charger, 18-year-old Jasbir Singh of Hughson, has survived the accident.
The accident occurred shortly before 11 a.m. June 18 near the Highways 152-156 intersection. A California Highway Patrol spokeswoman noted how the semi-truck driver, 57-year-old David Jones of Hayward, while attempting an illegal U-turn entered the dirt median with the vehicle's front end as the trailer blocked the westbound lanes.
The driver of the Charger while going at a "high rate of speed" did not react quickly enough to avoid it and the car "collided into and drove underneath the semi-trailer," she said.
Kollin Kosmicki Kollin Kosmicki is editor of the Free Lance and Pinnacle. Reach him at 831-637-5566 ext. 337 or editor@freelancenews.com.
POST A COMMENT
If you are under 13 years of age you may read this message board, but you may not participate.
Here are the full legal terms you agree to by using this comment form.
San Benito Score: Salinas rodeo, Frank Cembellin and youth baseball
