An 8-year-old child died early this morning, after being involved in a high-speed car accident that police believe was caused by alcohol. At 1:15 a.m., an officer from C.S.U.M.B. spotted a car speeding on Highway-1. The car tried to exit the highway at the Fremont/Rio Del Mar Boulevard exit, in Seaside. The car was reportedly traveling over 100-miles per hour, and crashed into a guard-rail. The impact split the car into 2-pieces. The 8-year-old passenger was air-lifted to a Bay-Area hospital, where the victim was pronounced dead. The 32-year-old driver was taken to Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula, and is expected to recover. The person is in police custody at the hospital, on suspicion of D.U.I.
