该名受害学生为22岁的中国交换学生Chuan-Zhuo Liu（音译刘川卓），Fremont消防局大队长内优（Mark Neveau）透露，刘川卓往生前住在联合城（Union City）的一个寄宿家庭，就读菲蒙市西北理工大学（Northwestern Polytechnic University）。
而据阿拉美达验尸官办公室透露，已经与刘川卓的寄宿家庭取得联系，据悉该家庭是刘川卓的教父母，刘川卓来美国念书也是教父母代为安排的。据他了解，刘川卓来美国应该有一段时间了，对当地环境也算熟悉了解。
加州高速公路巡警指出，刘川卓於昨日凌晨3点25分，因为驾驶的1994年丰田房车抛锚，将车靠边停在州际公路880南向刚过Mission Boulevard出口的路肩。
内优表示，刘川卓曾经打电话向寄宿家庭求救。不幸的是，在寄宿家庭赶到之前，他的丰田遭到一辆2003年凌志Lexus 470运动型多功能车的撞击。
当局指出，该辆凌志当时要下Warm Springs Boulevard出口时，速度太快，打横撞上刘川卓的车。撞击发生以后，因为力道过大，两辆车子滑到离事发现场100码以南的积水地，刘川卓当场身亡。
当局指出，刘川卓寄宿家庭赶到现场以后，看到有人从肇事车辆徒步逃逸，不过他们无法确定嫌疑犯是男是女。当局在初步调查和联络目击证人后指出，相信嫌犯为一名20岁左右的亚裔男子，身高5尺5寸，体重约为150磅。当局相信事发后嫌犯全身被水池中的泥巴覆盖，而且很可能在车祸中受伤。
医疗救护人员清晨四点的时候来到事发现场。内优透露，救护团队目击，凌志车翻覆压在刘川卓的丰田车上，丰田车陷入水中大约六到八英寸，他受困车中动弹不得。
内优表示：「当我看到他钱包里有他和女朋友的合照，我真的觉得很难过。他离家这麽的远，又是这麽的年轻。」
事发后，加州高路巡警马上封锁高速公路，只留下一线道让十位救援人员工作。救援人员花了45分钟，敲开丰田车两个车门以及锯掉一部分的车顶，才把刘川卓的遗体移出。
加州公路巡警联同Fremont警局和消防局人员，在事发后使用可以探测人体温度的热量造像相机於附近搜索逃逸嫌犯，警方也搜索了邻近地区和当地医院，不过未有收获。
警方已於清晨五点半将车祸现场清除完毕。加州公路巡警将继续调查车祸，任何人有关於车祸的相关讯息，请与当局Hayward分局联络，电话是（510）489-1500。
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Police seek driver in crash that killed Chinese student
STUDENT FROM CHINA WAS WAITING IN CAR
By Lisa Fernandez
Mercury News
The California Highway Patrol today was still seeking the driver of a sport-utility vehicle that hit a Toyota stuck in the mud near Fremont in the pre-dawn hours Saturday and instantly killed a 22-year-old student from China.
After several international phone calls, Fremont Fire Department Battalion Chief Mark Neveau said he reached the woman who raised the victim -- Liu Chuanzhuo -- and she was driving two hours to an unknown city in China to alert his parents.
Liu was studying at Northwestern Polytechnic University in Fremont, living with an elderly female relative he called ``Grandma.'' That woman didn't speak English but had a neighbor translate for her, Neveau said, when authorities showed up with Chuanzhuo's driver's license, credit cards and school ID. The woman, authorities said, was distraught at the news.
CHP officer Paul Cheever says nvestigators are looking for an Asian man, perhaps 25 or 30 years old, standing about 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighing 150 pounds.
Cheever said the man possibly sustained injuries and was last seen wearing muddy clothes. He was driving a silver 2003 Lexus SUV when it smashed Liu's 1994 Toyota Corolla about 3:25 a.m. That man ran away on foot after the collision, which occurred at the southbound off-ramp of Warm Springs Boulevard off Interstate 880.
Cheever would not disclose to whom the SUV was registered, and said he didn't believe that the driver and Liu knew each other.
Just before the fatal accident, Liu had parked his Toyota in the triangular patch off the exit because he had somehow gotten stuck in the mud, Cheever said. No one knows what he was doing at that hour; authorities said that earlier in the day he had delivered food to a sick friend.
As he made phone calls for help, the SUV drove off the exit at a ``high rate of speed,'' Cheever said, and struck the driver's side of the Toyota. Liu was killed on impact.
The collision caused both cars to slide about 350 feet down a drainage canal, Cheever said, and the Toyota was partially submerged in water.
Fremont police and firefighters searched the area and hospitals for other victims as well as the SUV driver using a thermal imaging camera that can detect body heat -- to no avail. It took 45 minutes to extricate the man from his car. The accident closed parts of the highway until 5:30 a.m.
