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A Danville man who was driving a minivan that was involved in a fatal crash that left a San Leandro woman dead earlier this year has been taken into custody and is now facing a felony vehicular manslaughter charge, police said Friday.
Andrew Chao, 72, was arrested following a monthslong investigation by the Danville Police Department into the town’s first fatal collision of the year at Sycamore Valley Boulevard and Camino Ramon on the afternoon of March 1, in which a passenger in the other vehicle — 57-year-old Sandy Hall of San Leandro — was killed.
Hall was the sole passenger in the truck that was hit by Chao’s minivan that day, with Chao and his teenage passenger, as well as the driver of the truck, sustaining minor injuries, according to information from DPD in March.
Chao was booked into the Martinez Detention Facility on Friday afternoon, with bail set at $50,000. He is facing one felony count of vehicular manslaughter from the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office.
No arraignment hearing or other court dates in the case had been scheduled yet as of Friday evening.
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect the correct age of Andrew Chao.
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