crash. Good evening. >> I'm Christien Kafton and I'm Julie Julie Haener. >> That crash happened at about 9:00 last night on Foothill Road near Stone Ridge Drive. This latest tragedy is stirring memories of a similar crash nearly five years ago that also claimed a number of lives. KTVU Jesse Gary joins us now with new details in the investigation. Jesse Julie, good evening to you. >> And just minutes ago, I talked to Pleasanton police. They say forensic investigators are still working at this hour to try to determine what caused this crash. Was it a case of speed or did something else happen that led to the loss of a family of four, a mother, a father, their two children? This incident is causing a withering pain here in this community. And for the school district, which, as Julie said, has seen this type of loss of life before. Hours after impact, charred earth and firefighting foam tell part of the grisly tale on Foothill Road in Pleasanton Wednesday night, an electric vehicle carrying four people crashed into a tree and caught fire. Pleasanton police investigators say all four occupants, two adults and two children, were killed. >> We're aware that any any loss of life, especially when it involves an entire family, has an impact on students and staff and parents and guardians, Patrick Gannon of the Pleasanton Unified School District wouldn't say which schools the two children attended, but did say the entire school community of 13,000 pre-K through 12th graders is devastated. >> Police investigators are looking to see if speed was a factor in the crash. The impact knocked the bark off one side of the tree at the scene. Four and a half years ago. A similar incident, also on Foothill Road, three teens twins Michelangelo and Mark, Anthony Urista and their friend Javier Ramirez, died at the scene near Castlewood Drive on Christmas night. Investigators say the driver lost control, hitting a utility pole and then a tree. >> Can you imagine losing twins that they both come in at the same time and they leave at the same time? >> Two other occupants were severely injured. This latest loss of life is pulling at heartstrings, still overcoming the last emotional wound. School district officials say extra support is being made available to students and staff Thursday and Friday. >> We've provided some extra counseling and support resources to students on campus. We have wellness centers at our middle and high schools, and students have been encouraged to visit, those those resources if they have a need. We're also following up with families at the end of the day with an email with, a lot of a lot of resources as far as, grief and just being there for, for students for whatever they need. >> Pleasanton police say they're still in the process of waiting for the Alameda County Medical examiner to make positive identification of those who were killed and notified their extended family once. That's happens, Pleasanton police say they'll be able to release the names of the victims and the ages. Investigators say they hope they hope to have all of that information as soon as 9:30 a.m. Friday morning. So 9:30 a.m. Friday morning. Investigators hope to be able to tell us the names and ages of the four people who lost their lives. If you're watching Fox two tomorrow morning, the nine get the information at that time. We're live in Pleasanton this evening, Jesse Gary
