Crime & Safety
11-Year-Old Girl Who Died in I-280 Crash Identified
Watsonville girl was one of at least three people ejected from truck not wearing seat belts.
The Santa Clara County medical examiner's office today identified an 11-year-old Watsonville girl who died in a crash on Interstate Highway 280
near Palo Alto on Saturday as Dalia Campos.
The girl was one of eight people in a white Ford F-150 pickup truck headed north on the highway at about 11:30 a.m. when it veered off the roadway south of Page Mill Road for unknown reasons and overturned, according
to the California Highway Patrol.
Dalia and two other Watsonville residents—the driver, 37-year-old Maria Campos and Simon Figueroa, 44—were ejected from the pickup and suffered major injuries, the CHP reported.
The girl died shortly after she was taken to a hospital, according to the CHP. The five other passengers suffered minor to moderate injuries.
CHP investigators said it does not appear that alcohol or drugs played a role in the crash, but they said at least several people in the truck—including the three who were ejected—were not wearing seat belts.
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