PLEASANTON — An individual died Sunday after their car left Interstate 680 lanes, authorities mentioned.
Shortly earlier than 6:30 p.m., California Freeway Patrol officers acquired phrase of a doable collision and smoke rising from beside southbound I-680 lanes on the Bernal Highway off-ramp, a CHP officer mentioned.
When officers arrived, they discovered a car that had pushed off the highway and struck a tree earlier than catching hearth. That particular person was pronounced lifeless on the scene.
Livermore-Pleasanton Hearth Division firefighters additionally responded to the scene aboard 5 engines and a truck with two battalion chiefs to place out a small crash-related vegetation hearth inside minutes.
The driving force’s identification was not instantly accessible from the Alameda County Sheriff’s Workplace coroner’s bureau, pending next-of-kin notification.
CHP officers labored with Pleasanton police to shut the gradual lane simply north of the off-ramp, and issued a Sig-alert simply after 7:15 p.m. closing the roadway’s right-hand lane for an investigation.
The alert was lifted at 8:32 p.m.
Anybody with data might name the CHP’s Dublin workplace at 925-828-0466.
Contact George Kelly at 408-859-5180.