Cloverdale , CA : 16-year old Angelica Contreras killed after street racing crash on Friday ,June 5th 2015

The California Highway Patrol is investigating a car crash Friday night outside Cloverdale that killed a teenage girl.

No one knew she had been hit and killed until Saturday morning.

The CHP says 16-year old Angelica Contreras was watching friends street race on a narrow country road.

"When she was struck she was sitting or standing near a guard rail," explained CHP Officer Jon Sloat. "One of the involved vehicles crashed, hit her, and she was sent to the riverbank below."

Contreras was thrown about a 150-feet, but the CHP says no one realized she had been hit.

"All the people there, including some parents who showed up, assured the officers that everybody was accounted for," Sloat said. "Had any of the people on-scene spoken up and said this person is missing, she was here before the crash, we definitely would have been looking around."

A passerby saw the girl's body about eight hours after the crash, long after the accident scene was cleared.

"I don't know how they didn't know she was hit that night," Contreras' friend, Hailey Donahoo said. "I don't understand that part. It's hard for me to grasp."

Donahoo came to the banks of the Russian River to place flowers at a makeshift memorial to her friend.


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Teenage girl killed in street racing crash