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The two people killed early Saturday morning in a crash off of U.S. Highway 101 in Menlo Park have been identified by the San Mateo County Coroner’s Office as Taufa Toutai Pupunu, 27, of Redwood City and Gaudi Salgado Barrios, 26, of East Palo Alto.
The crash was reported at 1:52 a.m. Saturday on southbound Highway 101 near the Willow Road off-ramp, according to the California Highway Patrol.
CHP officials said Barrios was speeding when she lost control of the car, which struck a tree, launched into the air and struck another tree.
One person was killed and one injured Wednesday evening when a sailboat taking part in a race near Redwood City collided with a channel marker buoy, a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said.
The Coast Guard learned shortly before 7 p.m. Wednesday evening that a 42-foot Catalina sailboat had collided with a marker buoy in a channel outside Redwood City, according to Coast Guard Lt. j.g. Mark Leahey.
The boat, which was involved in a race hosted by a local yacht club, had struck the buoy and become entangled, Leahey said.
A 62-year-old man carrying cans of beer while crossing a street in Redwood City was struck and killed by a car early Monday, authorities said.
The victim, later identified as Miguel Ramirez, a Redwood City resident, was apparently intoxicated when he tried to cross Middlefield Road north of Dumbarton Avenue about 2 a.m., said an Officer with the California Highway Patrol.
He was hit by a Nissan and died at the scene. His name has not been released.
A man was struck and killed by a train near the Atherton Caltrain station early Saturday morning, an agency spokeswoman said.
The man was on the tracks just north of Fair Oaks Lane near the station around 1:20 a.m. when he was hit by southbound train No. 198, Caltrain spokesman Jayme Ackeman said in an email.
The victim’s identity has not been released.
The train involved in the deadly collision was the last train of the night. It was delayed for more than an hour, Ackeman said.
The incident is the third Caltrain fatality this year, the spokeswoman said.
A woman was struck and killed by a train at Caltrain’s Redwood City station this morning, an agency spokeswoman said.
The woman was struck at about 6:15 a.m. by Caltrain No. 305 on the northbound tracks at the station located at 1 James Ave., a Caltrain spokeswoman said.
Train No. 305 had about 200 passengers on board and was not scheduled to stop at Redwood City. The train was eventually moved to the San Carlos station to allow the passengers to get off, then was taken to a maintenance facility in San Jose, Dunn said.
A 5-year-old boy was injured when a vehicle struck him in Pacifica on Friday afternoon, police said.
At about 12:30 p.m., officers responded to a report that a vehicle had struck a pedestrian in the 1100 block of Rosita Road.
Officers responded to the scene, located in a residential neighborhood, and discovered an injured 5-year-old boy in the roadway, police said.
The boy was transported to a nearby hospital with major injuries not considered life-threatening, according to police.
A person was killed Wednesday evening when a Toyota Corolla hit the center divide on northbound Interstate 280 in Daly City, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The accident, which involved only the Corolla, occurred about 4:45 p.m. on I-280 near the Westlake Avenue off-ramp.
The left three lanes of northbound I-280 were blocked for about two-and-a-half hours after the crash. They opened about 7:30 p.m., according to the CHP.
UPDATE: The victim of this accident has be identified as Gilbert Vallejo. 12/19/13.