CHP: Teen killed, 5 injured in drunken driving crash on Highway 17

A 16-year-old boy was killed and four other teenagers were injured when a drunken driver going the wrong way on Highway 17 plowed into their car early Saturday morning, authorities said.

The driver who caused the crash, 28-year-old Ashley Marie Oliver of San Jose, had been driving north in the southbound lanes near Redwood Estates just after 2 a.m. and was also injured in the crash, California Highway Patrol Officer Ross Lee said.

Oliver was arrested on tentative charges of felony drunken driving and vehicular manslaughter after she was released from the hospital, Lee said.

A CHP officer spotted Oliver’s Chrysler minivan driving the wrong direction just before the crash but couldn’t catch up to the car and stop it in time, Lee said.

Instead, he said, the officer arrived after the minivan collided head-on with a Toyota carrying five 16- and 17-year-olds.

The teen who was killed has not been identified. Three other passengers from the Toyota were hospitalized with injuries that are not believed to be life-threatening, while one was treated at the scene for minor injuries.