UNION CITY — A man killed early Friday morning after the vehicle he was driving crashed into a center divider on Interstate 880 has been identified by the coroner’s office as 22-year-old Marco Gonzalez Peregrina of Hayward.
The California Highway Patrol said the crash happened at about 12:31 a.m. Friday in the southbound lanes of I-880 south of the Alvarado-Niles offramp and before the Fremont Boulevard offramp. The area where the crash happened is considered within Union City, the CHP said.
The CHP said a silver sedan went out of control and crashed into the divider. Gonzalez Peregrina was pronounced dead at the scene.
Two lanes of the freeway were shut down for a few hours while the CHP investigated.
The cause of the crash remains under investigation. Anyone with information is asked to call the Hayward CHP office at 510-489-1500.