California Car Crash Kills 5 foreign students and 1 American

Rick Patterson

Attorney

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An accident on the 101 Freeway in Los Alamos, California killed six of the seven passengers involved. Three French women, one Russian woman, an American man, and a Turkish woman were all killed. The driver, 19-year-old Jeanne Ostrowski of France, is the only survivor but is in critical condition.

According to California Highway Patrol, the car crash occurred late last Thursday. "For an unknown reason the car drifted into the center median, overcorrected, lost control and drifted across both southbound lanes and down a decline before impacting with a tree," CHP spokeswoman Fran Clader said.

The man was identified by local media as a 30-year-old professional from San Francisco.

The students who were killed were all in their 20s.

Clader said the foreigners were studying English at a private school in San Francisco and one of the French women was attending ballet school.