A sideshow in Crockett early Saturday morning ended in tragedy when a spectator apparently fell to their death from a freeway overpass.

The incident happened around 3:30 a.m. near the intersection of San Pablo Avenue and Merchant Street, just off Interstate 80 and the Carquinez Bridge. According to witnesses, a group of young people had been trying to get a better view of the cars spinning donuts in the intersection by jumping across a gap between freeway ramps — an off-ramp bridge, the other an on-ramp.

Drone footage, filmed by neighbor Joe Pallotta IV, showed dozens of people gathered at the overpass gap soon after, shining phone flashlights through the gap. A short time after the cars cleared out, California Highway Patrol officers found a body 40 to 60 feet below the ramps.

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