Rickia Clayton, 17, killed in multi-car crash on Interstate 80 in Vacaville, California

A 17-year-old girl from Concord died in a multi-car collision on Interstate 80 early Sunday morning around 12:30 a.m. in Vacaville. The teen was standing on the shoulder of the freeway putting gas in her car with a Nissan Altima parked directly behind her.A man driving a Super Shuttle van drove onto the shoulder and hit the Altima which shoved the van into the teen's car.She died at Kaiser Hospital in Vacaville.

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