Fatal Crash Victim From San Jose Id'd After Drunk Driving Crash

SAN JOSE, CA -- A 23-year-old man who died in a crash on Interstate Highway 280 early Saturday morning has been identified as Jeremiah Veu of San Jose, according to the Santa Clara County medical examiner's office.

Veu was a passenger in a car driven by a suspected drunk driver when the crash happened at about 1:45 a.m., according to the California Highway Patrol. The 2013 BMW failed to negotiate a turn from northbound state Highway 17 to southbound Highway 280, left the roadway and struck a tree
before rolling several times and landing on its wheels.

The four men in the car were taken to the hospital and Veu succumbed to his injuries. The driver, 23-year-old Ryan Quoc Nguyen, suffered major injuries and will be arrested on suspicion of felony DUI and vehicular manslaughter after he is released from the hospital. CHP Officer Ross Lee said he does not know Nguyen's current condition.

Veu's cousin created a donation page on GoFundMe Saturday to raise money for funeral expenses. The page at https://www.gofundme.com/funer... had raised more than $3,600 of a $5,000 goal as of this afternoon.

Veu had gone out to dinner with his friends and was returning home when the crash happened, according to his cousin Bernadette Seau Toilolo. She wrote on the page that he was a student, an athlete and was working a full-time job to support his family.

"His departure has created a missing piece to my aunty's heart," Toilolo wrote. "She'll no longer receive those texts that he's on his way home, or those mornings after work bringing her breakfast or taking care of her as he always did when he was home."

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