Two people were killed and nine were injured after a night of 3 February the driver-the offender was provoked by two accidents on highway 101 in San Francisco.
I’m on the scene of a horrific crash involving 5 cars with a total of 11 people. 9 of which have been transferred to the hospital and 2 people died on the scene. This crash was caused by a wrong way driver in the NB lanes of 101 in San Francisco near the Albany Blvd exit. pic.twitter.com/q0Kaz0Gudr
— Sara Stinson (@SaraStinsonNews) February 3, 2019
According to the highway patrol Berta Diaz, the first collision occurred at 2:33 near Vermont Street. A vehicle travelling South on the Northern lanes of the highway, hit two cars and then crashed into a minivan South of Cesar Chavez Street, killing one man flew out of the car. Police could not confirm whether it was a passenger car traveling in the wrong direction, or the passenger of a minivan. It is believed that the driver causing the accident, went to the track 101 with the off-road highway Vermont Street. Clash touched two more cars.
Two people die and nine others are injured in wrong-way driver crashes on NB Highway 101 in San Francisco. All lanes have reopened after a more than seven-hour closure. https://t.co/CBULDxEruG pic.twitter.com/2To8OhNadf
— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) February 3, 2019
The minivan driver and the driver-the offender died at the scene. All the other victims of the accident were hospitalized. In the way they are now is unknown. The Northern strip of highway 101 were blocked with 2:40 to 10:00.
Management medical examination San Francisco reported that the evening of the same day the driver-the infringer has been identified as 21-year-old Kylie Wilson from San Jose and the other dead victim was identified as 40-year-old Wahid of Etimad from Concord.
#UPDATE: This father of seven, who was a part-time #Uber driver, was killed when a wrong-way driver smashed head-on into his minivan on Highway 101 in San Francisco. The wrong-way driver also died in the grisly crash. https://t.co/cmVR2fA5aL pic.twitter.com/JyOCTezZG0
— NBC Bay Area (@nbcbayarea) February 4, 2019
Etimad studied at Diablo Valley College and worked part-time as a driver in Uber. GoFundMe campaign launched to help his family claimed that he was the father of 7 children. Etimad and his family arrived in the Bay area of San Francisco from Afghanistan after he received special permission to assist the US military as a translator.
On the day of the death of Etimad company Uber has issued a statement in which it stated that it was a terrible tragic incident, and they condole with the bereaved family of the deceased men. Uber is ready to cooperate with the authorities to help the investigation in any way possible.
