Lenin Homer Silva was killed in the crash, and three other people were injured
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- A Chevrolet Camaro collided with a tractor-trailer on May 30 on Interstate 80 in San Francisco before flying off a bridge railing and landing 25 feet below
- Three people sustained injuries while a 17-year-old passenger was pronounced dead at the scene
- In a statement shared with PEOPLE, the San Mateo Union High School District identified the victim as Lenin Homer Silva
A teen was killed in a car crash just days after he graduated from high school, authorities said.
The California Highway Patrol said the fatal incident occurred on Saturday, May 30, at approximately 1:30 a.m., local time, on eastbound Interstate 80 near the Seventh Street off-ramp in San Francisco, CBS affiliate KPIX, CW affiliate KTLA and SFGate reported.
A CHP spokesperson told SFGate that the 18-year-old driver of a Chevrolet Camaro made an “unsafe turning movement to the right” and struck a Recology tractor-trailer. The collision prompted both vehicles to hit yellow sand barrels placed along the freeway to absorb crashes…