9-year-old boy killed in Highway 50 rollover crash identified by Sacramento coroner
Coroner’s officials identified a 9-year-old boy who was killed Thursday evening in a chain-reaction crash on Highway 50 in East Sacramento.
The Sacramento County Coroner’s Office said the victim was Abdelkarim Alhazaymeh of Elk Grove, who was killed when he was ejected from a vehicle that was heading westbound on the freeway at 6:36 p.m.
According to the California Highway Patrol, the collision started when a 19-year-old female motorist driving a 2017 Mazda came in contact with another car while changing lanes going about 60 mph.
The Mazda’s rear end clipped the right front side of a 2017 Toyota, driven by a 52-year-old man from Sacramento, which was going the same direction at about 65 mph in the leftmost lane, the CHP said in a news release. The contact caused the Mazda to veer left and strike the center divider just west of 59th Street.
The Mazda then veered to the right, according to the CHP, and struck the left side of a 2003 Honda being driven in the No. 3 lane by a 44-year-old man from Cypress, Orange County. After it was struck, the Honda veered right into a dirt embankment on the shoulder and overturned at the 59th Street onramp.
It was as the car overturned that Alhazaymeh, who officers said was not wearing a seat belt, was thrown from the vehicle before the Honda flipped over a jersey wall and landed on its roof, the CHP’s South Sacramento office said.
Three other occupants in the Honda were hospitalized with minor injuries, including the driver, who according to the CHP news release was also not belted. It was not clear whether the other two occupants were belted into the vehicle.
No other injuries were reported.
The investigation remains ongoing, but no arrests have been made. Those who witnessed the crash are urged to call the CHP’s South Sacramento office at 916-897-5600.
