{"id":376632,"date":"2026-06-27T01:09:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T01:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/376632\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T01:09:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T01:09:18","slug":"uc-berkeley-student-killed-in-i-580-crash-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/376632\/","title":{"rendered":"UC Berkeley student killed in I-580 crash \u2013 The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A student at the University of California at Berkeley died in a crash on Interstate 580 near San Quentin, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Paloma Fabiana Guadalupe Foster, 35, was from Fullerton in Orange County, according to the Marin County coroner\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened at about 1:40 a.m. Sunday in the eastbound lanes, the California Highway Patrol. Foster was a passenger in Nissan Versa.<\/p>\n<p>The driver fell asleep and the Nissan crashed into the center median wall, the CHP said. Then the car veered to the shoulder, went off the road and crashed into a hillside near the San Quentin exit.<\/p>\n<p>Foster died at a hospital. The 32-year-old Oakland man driving the car and a 7-year-old boy in the back seat were not injured, the CHP said.<\/p>\n<p>The boy is Foster\u2019s son, according to an online fundraising site a friend launched at <a href=\"https:\/\/shorturl.at\/ece2G\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shorturl.at\/ece2G<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The CHP does not suspect the driver of intoxication and did not arrest him. The agency is still investigating the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Foster and the others were returning home from the GrooveWell Vacation festival in Mendocino County, KTVU reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A student at the University of California at Berkeley died in a crash on Interstate 580 near San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[389,184,764,7,859,8,1531,138,332,1529,33021,181,992,1338,100,993,143,145,144,16217],"class_list":["post-376632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-alameda-county","tag-bay-area","tag-berkeley","tag-california","tag-california-highway-patrol","tag-california-news","tag-crashes-and-disasters","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-east-bay","tag-east-bay-crime","tag-interstate-580","tag-latest-headlines","tag-marin-county","tag-morning-wire","tag-news","tag-north-bay","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-traffic-fatalities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}