CROCKETT, Calif. - A 16-year-old boy died in Crockett on Saturday after he climbed over a concrete barrier and fell off an overpass while watching an illegal sideshow.

California Highway Patrol officers and deputies from the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office were called just after 3:25 a.m. on Saturday to the intersection of Pomona Street and Merchant Street, near Interstate 80, on reports of the takeover involving more than 100 vehicles blocking roads in the area, according to a CHP statement .

At the scene, the CHP received a report that one of the people watching the sideshow had climbed over a barrier on the Pomona Street on-ramp to Interstate 80, and had accidentally fallen about 75 feet to the ground below.

Authorities found the 16-year-old victim directly under the Pomona

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