Five people, including three children ages 9 and under, who died in a crash involving a wrong-way driver on state Highway 4 in Pittsburg early Thursday morning have been identified by the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office.
Tiara Tucker, 27, Kaliyah Johnson-Ochoa, 9, Keilani Johnson-Ochoa, 4, and Mariah Mihailovic, 5, all of Vallejo, and Lasaundra Goode, 44, of Vacaville, died in the head-on collision reported around 12:10 a.m. Thursday on westbound Highway 4, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
The California Highway Patrol initially received a report of someone driving a Hyundai Elantra east in the westbound highway lanes near Railroad Avenue, then learned shortly afterward that the Hyundai crashed head-on into a Ford Flex west of Loveridge Road.
Tucker and the three children were in the Hyundai, while Goode was the lone occupant of the Ford, CHP officials said.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation by the CHP, including whether impairment was a factor.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the CHP’s Contra Costa-area office at (925) 646-4980.
That makes me sad. Poor kids…
And poor lady from Vacaville. I came across someone stopped on the freeway at night before and I only had seconds to veer out of the way once I saw them. With someone traveling the wrong way at you at 60mph you would have very very little time to make an aggressive serve to avoid an oncoming car at night once you spot them.
Ok…… Hyundai going the wrong way with three children in the car????? Sounds like either drugs or suicide. That freeway is five lanes wide (lot’s of room) and headlights coming at you are a pretty good indication of something wrong. Sorry for the kids and sorry for the driver of the Flex but sounds intentional or irrational (drugs). You are in charge of your life and if you decide to screw it up only fools drag other in with you. I hope there is another reason I do not see here.
Truely heartbreaking.
Prayers to both families. So devastating.