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10 Year Old SF Girl Killed In Emeryville Crash

Crystal Vasquez was riding in a car on I-80 in Emeryville when the wreck happened.

OAKLAND, CA — A girl who was killed in a collision on eastbound Interstate Highway 80 in Emeryville on Sunday morning has been identified by the Alameda County coroner's bureau as 10-year-old Crystal Vasquez of San Francisco.

Vasquez was a passenger in a white Ford SUV that was traveling at a high rate of speed for the wet conditions, lost control and went sideways into a green Ford pickup truck that lost control a few moments earlier just west of the Powell Street exit at about 9:45 a.m. Sunday, California Highway Patrol Officer Michael Hamer said.

The pickup truck had come to a stop blocking the third lane from the left, Hamer said.

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The driver of the SUV and a young person in the SUV were both taken to hospitals to be treated for their injuries, according to Hamer.