Five people, including three children ages 9 and under, who died in a crash involving a wrong-way driver on state Highway 4 in Pittsburg early Thursday morning have been identified by the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office.
Tiara Tucker, 27, Kaliyah Johnson-Ochoa, 9, Keilani Johnson-Ochoa, 4, and Mariah Mihailovic, 5, all of Vallejo, and Lasaundra Goode, 44, of Vacaville, died in the head-on collision reported around 12:10 a.m. Thursday on westbound Highway 4, according to the Sheriff's Office.
The California Highway Patrol initially received a report of someone driving a Hyundai Elantra east in the westbound highway lanes near Railroad Avenue, then learned shortly afterward that the Hyundai crashed head-on into a Ford Flex west of Loveridge Road.
Tucker and the three children were in the Hyundai, while Goode was the lone occupant of the Ford, CHP officials said.
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The cause of the crash remains under investigation by the CHP, including whether impairment was a factor.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the CHP's Contra Costa-area office at (925) 646-4980.
