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A woman was killed after leaping out of a car on Interstate 580 in Livermore and rolling into multiple traffic lanes, where she was struck by a yet-unconfirmed number of vehicles on Saturday evening, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The fatality investigation backed traffic up for miles on the freeway and on nearby city streets for hours into the night, with the last lane reopening and the all clear finally given nearly 10 hours later on Sunday morning.
CHP officers also put out a call for witnesses to come forward, including motorists with any information about what vehicles possibly ran over the woman lying in the roadway.
The situation unfolded at approximately 8:20 p.m. Saturday (Sept. 21) on eastbound I-580 just west of the First Street interchange in Livermore, according to Officer Tyler Hahn of the CHP’s Dublin office. Emergency dispatch received a number of calls about a pedestrian down in the freeway lanes.
Officers learned the woman — later identified as a 24-year-old Pleasant Hill resident — had jumped out of the front passenger seat of a black 2018 Audi, under suspicious circumstances, and rolled into the traffic lanes of I-580, according to Hahn.
Several approaching vehicles proceeded to run over or strike the woman as she rolled on the freeway, Hahn said without confirming an exact number of cars involved. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene. Her name was not immediately released.
Hahn alleged the Audi’s driver briefly pulled over to the shoulder before driving away from the scene and not stopping to report the incident until getting to Tracy. The driver, whose name was not revealed, was ultimately arrested on suspicion of felony hit-and-run.
The collisions and subsequent investigation and cleanup heavily impacted traffic on eastbound I-580 on Saturday night — on a weekend where freeway congestion was already heightened in the Tri-Valley, with the full closure of I-680 southbound in the San Ramon and Dublin areas for construction.
The initial report on the CHP incidents webpage said all but one of the seven I-580 lanes were blocked in the immediate aftermath of the fatal crash. CHP-Dublin announced around 11:30 p.m. that three more lanes had opened up, and the agency posted on social media at around 6:20 a.m. Sunday that all lanes had reopened.
The circumstances of the woman’s death remain under investigation. “The CHP is asking for your help with any information regarding anyone who may have run over the pedestrian lying in the roadway, or anyone who may have witnessed this crash,” Hahn said, urging potential witnesses to call the CHP-Dublin office at 925-828-0466.
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