Fremont teen killed in DUI crash on Highway 17 identified
UPDATE 5/12/2019 9:20 p.m. The Fremont teen killed in a crash on Highway 17 early Saturday morning is identified as 16-year-old Armando Canales.
Canales was a student and football player at Washington High School, where he was a junior. After his graduation in 2020, he hoped to become a firefighter.
He was riding in a Toyota Corolla with four others when a minivan hit them head-on. Three were taken to the hospital with major injuries, but Canales, who was in the backseat, died at the scene. He was not wearing a seatbelt.
Ashley Marie Oliver, 28, was the driver of the minivan. She was driving the wrong way when she hit the Corolla, and she was booked into the Santa Clara County Jail on felony DUI and vehicular manslaughter charges.
UPDATE 5/11/2019 4:40 p.m. Santa Clara CHP confirms that a 16-year-old male was killed in a head-on crash on Highway 17 early Saturday morning.
A Santa Cruz CHP officer was heading south on highway near Summit at around 2 a.m. when a wrong-way driver passed them. They turned the patrol car to stop the Chrysler minivan, but by the time they caught up, the van had hit a Toyota Corolla head-on.
The Corolla had five 16 and 17-year-olds inside, three female and two male. A 16-year-old male from Fremont sitting in the backseat was killed in the crash. Three others in the car are in the hospital with major, but not life-threatening, injuries. One other had minor injuries.
The driver of the minivan was Ashley Marie Oliver, 28, from San Jose. She was treated for minor injuries before being arrested for suspected felony DUI and vehicular manslaughter. She is booked into the Santa Clara County Jail.
All southbound lanes of Highway 17 were closed until around 5:15 a.m. Saturday.
PREVIOUS STORY: At least one person was killed in a Saturday morning accident on Highway 17, north of the summit, according to California Highway Patrol.
CHP in Santa Clara County tells KION that the crash involved two cars and happened at around 2 a.m.. Multiple people were taken to the hospital.
All southbound lanes were closed, and reopened at around 5:15 a.m.
