SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — Four people were killed in a wrong-way crash involving a taxi in San Francisco early Thursday morning.
Among the four was Berkant Ahmed, the 42-year-old taxi driver from San Carlos.
Friends and family of Ahmed now hope to fulfill their loved one’s final wish — to be buried next to his mother in Bulgaria.
A GoFundMe has been set up to help the family with funeral plans and costs.
A family friend of Ahmed said those who knew him had only nice things to say about him.
“He’s always happy, he loves his daughter — he did everything he could for her,” Janan Basaran said. “Part of the reason why he was a cabdriver was to support his daughter and to make sure she was happy and that he can provide for her.”
In addition to his 16-year-old daughter, Ahmed leaves behind his ex-wife.
Ahmed was of Turkish descent but born and raised in Bulgaria.
He tried to travel to both countries often, and was building a house in Bulgaria that he hoped to retire to one day.
According to CHP, the crash happened at 12:24 a.m. on northbound Highway 101 just north of Candlestick Point and south of Third Street.
Officials said a 34-year-old Burlingame woman driving a Volkswagen was traveling south in the northbound lanes of Highway 101 near the Candlestick Park off-ramp and that the two-car crash happened at Paul Avenue.
All four people involved in the crash died at scene, according to CHP officials.
The passengers of the taxi were identified as Mary Miller, a 57-year-old woman from Chicago, Illinois, and Judson Bergman, a 62-year-old man from Berington, Illinois, who were reportedly just picked up from the San Francisco airport.