FREMONT — A wrong-way driver was killed Wednesday morning after crashing into a parked semi-truck trailer, police said.
The coroner’s bureau was still trying to confirm the dead man’s name Friday.
In a news release sent out Thursday afternoon, police said the collision happened about 9:05 a.m. Wednesday on Fremont Boulevard near Decoto Road.
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Police said that based on a preliminary investigation, a vehicle — investigators have not said what kind — was traveling southbound in the northbound lanes of Fremont Boulevard at high speed before it collided with a parked and detached semi-truck trailer that was unoccupied on the east shoulder of northbound Fremont Boulevard.
The vehicle driver was pronounced dead at the scene.
No other vehicles were damaged and no one else was injured.
The cause of the collision is under investigation and it has not yet been determined if drugs or alcohol were factors, authorities said.
The death is Fremont’s fourth fatal traffic collision of the year, police said.
Anyone witnessing the collision or with information about it is asked to contact the Fremont police traffic unit by calling 510-790-6760. To send an anonymous tip, text ‘Tip FremontPD’ followed by your short message to 888-777 or via the web at https://www.fremontpolice.gov/Tip.