Police showed up to the two-car crash at West Valpico Road and Sycamore Parkway at about 3:40 p.m. Saturday, finding one car on the center median and the other in the middle of the intersection, according to Tracy police Sgt. Luis Mejia. Tracy police closed the intersection for a few hours for investigation and cleanup.
Tracy police spokesman Sgt. Tony Sheneman said Tuesday that an investigation into the cause of the crash is ongoing and that he had no further details.
Photos show that a silver Honda collided with a dark blue Mercedes-Benz SUV. The driver’s side of the Honda was smashed in. A relative identified the man who died in the crash as Ricardo Navia, a 45-year-old from Modesto who was in town to visit another family member.
Sheneman said an autopsy report is being compiled.
Police records say the driver of the Mercedes walked away before officers arrived, but that might be a miscommunication, according to the sister of one of the SUV’s passengers. She said a witness misidentified her brother — who panicked and left the vehicle — as the driver. The sister, who asked not to be identified, said her brother is only 15 and was a passenger.
The driver, she said, was her brother’s 16-year-old best friend, whom she also refused to identify by name.
Both were wearing white T-shirts, the relative said, but her brother’s shirt had paintball stains on the back. There were paintballs in the back of the SUV, she said, and they exploded upon impact.
Emergency responders ordered a helicopter to take one person to Doctors Hospital in Modesto and sent Tracy police Chaplain Don Higgins to the hospital shortly after the crash, after reports arrived that Navia was dying, according to the dispatch log.
I am a concerned citizen who was wondering if anyone had any new information on this situation?
All I keep seeing is the same postings, so if anyone has anything new 2 add please do a.s.a.p!
by the way:
Calif teen gets 15 years in death of passenger
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) -- A judge sentenced an unlicensed teenage driver to 15 years to life in the death of a classmate after he drank several shots of rum and crashed his mother's car.
Milad Moulayi, 18, of Tustin was sentenced Friday to the maximum term for second-degree murder for the 2008 single-car crash that killed 16-year-old Mackenzie Frazee after a party.
Orange County Superior Court Judge Carla Singer told the Moulayi that he had committed a "brutal and violent crime," and had been warned about driving without a license before.
Moulayi apologized and asked Frazee's family for forgiveness before he was sentenced.
Witnesses said at trial that the teenager was stumbling drunk when he insisted on driving Frazee home.
YOU B**** ITZTHEANSWER AND UNKOWON209, BETTER WATCH FOR YOUR WORTLESS WORDS, I JUST TELL YOY THIS MUCH "WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND" GOD IS THERE FOR EVERYONE. JUST TAKE THIS AS A WAKE UP CALL FROM GOD AND PRAY FOR YOUR UPCOMING FUTUER.
1st. There was no alcohol involved so please stop making false statements.
2nd. They did not have any knives to begin with so I don't know where the heck you are coming up with this info about knives being thrown in the bushes.
3rd. You are wrong about the driver not going to jail. Yea unfortunately he won't get life I'm prison but I know for a fact he will serve time.
People please don't believe what these low lives are saying. It will be a while before Tracy PD releases the police report so these people know absolutely nothing about the case or the evidence obtained. Now they are just making their own little stories up for the attention they never had as a child.
The sister at the scene?
Who are they trying to protect and why? Seemed to have such vested interests in what they do?
Mercedes, whose car is that???
Remember, the family whose husband/father/son/brother/uncle/cousin.....was taken in the accident, the help they need is posted in the other article.
Will the sister help these family, too?
What if it were to happen to her in the future?
How would she want to be helped?
So sad, sad situation, parents can't be very happy with their sons?
Just waiting to see what the investigators say of their findings...
CN
However, No apologies for their friends who have represented themselves and other kids of their age very poorly. There are many good kids out there who you have now given a bad name. Shame on you!
Either way my condolences to the family who lost a loved one. It is a tragedy in any way, shape or form.
We'd probably take iTzTheAnswer and the information being provided more seriously if they weren't on here acting like an uneducated retard, trying to act like a thug. Do us a favor and stop trying to represent your friends. You're just making them look bad with your cussing and threats. No one is threatened by you. If anything, you are just making us lose what little sympathy we already have for them.
If you can provide objective facts in a calm manner then we can all get somewhere. Until then just STFU mmmkay?! So run along little troll...come back when you've calmed down.
unknown209 - can you corroborate the alcohol statement?
Now when compiling evidence they will also look at the kids involved...did they have priors? Were they good students etc. Then they will make decisions on how they want to proceed with the case. Each case is different and if the kids are found to be at fault, it would make a difference on why they were at fault and what type of kids they are. There maybe no great penalty or jail if let's say he was distracted and rolled through sign versus racing, for example.
Or they may find that they went and the Honda was at fault. Who knows, I just know that I was t-boned from a car going about 35 mph and the damage to our vehicle was similar. So that is what I have personally to compare it too.
My kids are the same age and I worry about them and their friends all the time. I hope if nothing else this is a topic that encourages parent to talk and stress to their kids the importance of safe driving and what they should do and not do if in a tragic situation such as this.
NO.
but ur basically implying it in what ur saying
YA .. SOME LAW AND SOME JUSTICE WE HAVE IN THIS COUNTRY?
the law is the law and justice is always served.
Ever see a car that hit a tree or pole as it was sliding sideways. Looks just like a t-bone.
What if the suv was going slow and pulled away from the stop sign, Honda blows the sign, overreacts, slides sideways and creats a classic t-bone into the suv.
I'm only throwing this out there because there are a multitude of ways this could have happened. We will know soon enough after the investigation has been completed.
Until then, the mud slingin is just that. Grow up.