Crime & Safety
Woman's Burned Body Found Tuesday Morning on Highway 9 in Saratoga
The discovery was reported at 12:23 a.m. Tuesday by Cal Fire and CHP who were responding to scene.
The body of badly burnt woman was discovered at about 12:23 a.m. Tuesday by California Highway Patrol and Cal Fire officials after they responded to a vehicle that had caught fire on impact on westbound Highway 9 near Heather Heights Road in unincorporated Saratoga.
The unidentified person was found when Cal Fire officials were attending to a car fire and discovered the charred remains inside the vehicle, said CHP spokesman John Darling.
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"Everything is still under investigation," Darling said, adding that preliminary reports indicate the vehicle was traveling at a speed too great for the driver to negotiate a turn, going off the roadway, catching fire on impact and killing the driver.
The vehicle the woman was driving appears to be a Volkswagen Beetle and was 50 feet off the roadway and 125 feet down the embankment, which made recovery difficult, Darling said.
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"At this time we have no identifying items to determine who she was," Darling said. "The car is so badly burnt that the plates melted."
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