Fatal Peninsula Crash Victims ID'd

SAN MATEO COUNTY, CA — Two East Bay women have been identified as the victims of a fatal Peninsula crash last week.

Deepika Vasisht and Mandeep Kaur, both 36 of Hayward, were identified as the victims of Friday morning’s crash on westbound state Highway 92 in Foster City just west of the San Mateo-Hayward Bridge, the San Mateo County Coroner’s Office said.

The crash was reported shortly after 9:45 a.m. on the highway just east of Foster City Boulevard on the Peninsula side of the bridge.

Three women in a Ford Fusion were traveling west and had just gotten off the bridge when the Ford veered across lanes of the highway and struck a big-rig that was parked on the right hand shoulder and then ended up in a ditch, CHP spokesman Officer Art Montiel said.

The driver and left rear passenger in the Ford died, while the third woman was taken to a hospital and an update on her condition was not immediately available, Montiel said.

The crash and emergency response was not blocking any lanes of the highway as of late Friday morning, he said.

— Bay City News contributed to this report