By Khalida Sarwari
The Santa Clara County medical examiner’s office today identified a man who died in a crash on Interstate Highway 280 near Palo Alto on Friday night as 58-year-old Renzo Paul Rossi.
The crash occurred at about 10:15 p.m. Friday on southbound Highway 280 north of Page Mill Road, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Rossi, of Canoga Park, was driving a 1991 Toyota Camry south on the highway when, for unknown reasons, he went off the right side of the roadway and hit a metal guardrail, the CHP said.
Palo Alto firefighters responded and pronounced Rossi dead at the scene.
The cause of the crash is under investigation.
Anyone who may have witnessed the crash is asked to call CHP Officer Hermansen at (650) 369-6261, ext. 317.
