Car discovered down canyon Saturday; Fremont teen had been out of contact six days
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The Alameda County Coroner s Bureau confirmed Monday that the driver found dead inside a car upside down in a canyon in Sunol over the weekend was the Fremont teen who had been reported missing nearly one week earlier.
(Courtesy of CHP)
The victim was identified as 19-year-old Atharva Chinchwadkar, a student of the University of California at Santa Cruz.
Fremont Police Department officials, who had been investigating Chinchwadkar s disappearance on Feb. 21, issued a statement later Monday confirming the news and sending sincerest condolences to the family and friends of Atharva.
A Fremont resident who had been reported missing nearly one week earlier was discovered dead inside a car recovered from a canyon below Calaveras Road south of Sunol on Saturday morning, according to the CHP.
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A missing at-risk Fremont resident was found dead inside an overturned vehicle Saturday morning in an unincorporated area of Alameda County near Sunol and Fremont.
Deceased Driver In Overturned Vehicle Was Missing At-Risk Fremont Resident
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A missing at-risk Fremont resident was found dead inside an overturned vehicle Saturday morning in an unincorporated area of Alameda County near Sunol and Fremont.
According to the Dublin office of the California Highway Patrol, it received a call of an overturned vehicle off the roadway on Calaveras Road west of Welch Creek. A bicyclist had stopped there and observed a gray Toyota Camry upside down approximately 100 feet down into a canyon. Alameda County Fire Department firefighters rappelled down the ravine to find the driver deceased in the vehicle. When the vehicle was recovered, it was confirmed that the driver had been reported missing out of Fremont last Sunday. There were no skid marks where the vehicle left the roadway.