A driver was found dead in her car hours after a crash was reported on Interstate 280 near Hillsborough, the California Highway Patrol said.
Officers had gone to the scene around 2 a.m. Sunday but could not find any wreckage. After more calls were received, the CHP returned around 7:30 a.m. and found the car, a Volkswagen Tiguan, in a ditch in the median south of the Black Mountain Road exit.
The driver, the only occupant, was dead. She was identified as a woman in her 30s.
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On that stretch of Interstate 280, the grassy median is about 50 yards wide. It is thought that the car veered off the southbound lanes and hit a boulder, the CHP said.
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