Fiery Mountain View Crash Victim Identified

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA — A man who died Friday in a fiery crash on the 101 in Mountain View has been publicly identified as a San Mateo resident. Wei Huang died following the wreck at Stanford Hospital, according to the Santa Clara County medical examiner's office. He was 38.

The crash happened around 9:30 a.m. Friday on the southbound side of Highway 101 at the SR-85 southbound connector, according to CHP Officer Art Montiel.

Huang was driving a blue Tesla on the highway "at freeway speeds" when he hit the attenuator barrier dividing the SR-85 southbound connector and US-101 southbound lanes, the CHP said. After crashing into the barrier, he was then hit by two other cars.

"The Tesla was struck by a white Mazda and consequently struck again by a gray Audi," Montiel said in a news release. "The Tesla then caught fire. The driver sustained major injuries and later succumbed to his injuries at Stanford Hospital."

The subsequent investigation led to a closure lasting nearly six hours. No other injuries were reported.

Montiel said it's currently unknown if drugs or alcohol were factors in the crash and anyone who may have witnesses the wreck was asked to call Officer Juan Garcia at (650) 369-6261.

This is a Google Maps image of the location where the collision occurred. We don't have a current picture available but this is the type of barrier the Tesla collided with at freeway speeds. pic.twitter.com/cuXP4ivjdC
— CHP Redwood City (@CHP_RedwoodCity) March 23, 2018

@CHP_RedwoodCity and @Tesla investigators trying to determine if this is a front or rear tire from Model S that crashed & caught fire on SB 101 in #MountainView @KTVU pic.twitter.com/8E7yqHnHNH
— Jesse Gary (@JesseKTVU) March 23, 2018

— Bay City News Service contributed to this report / Image via Shutterstock