A 16-year-old girl who died in a crash in Walnut Creek over the weekend has been identified by the Contra Costa County Coroner’s Office as Alina Safi.

Officers responded at about 4:40 p.m. Saturday to a report of a head-on collision on eastbound Ygnacio Valley Road east of Oak Grove Road, according to Walnut Creek police.

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Dan McMenamin is the managing editor at Bay City News, directing daily news coverage of the 12-county greater Bay Area. He has worked for BCN since 2008 and has been managing editor since 2014 after previously serving as BCN’s San Francisco bureau reporter. A UC Davis graduate, he came to BCN after working for a newspaper and nonprofit in the Davis area. He handles staffing, including coaching of our interns, day-to-day coverage decisions and management of the newswire.