Horror as software engineer, 27, is killed in huge crash with Tesla - as his girlfriend reveals premonition she had

A talented bundle technologist was killed successful a horrifying multi-car smash successful downtown San Francisco with the clang besides claiming the beingness of the couple's dog. 

The horrific collision happened connected Sunday evening arsenic Mikhael 'Misha' Romanenko, 27, and his girlfriend, Linh Luu, were driving to prime up household members for a travel to the airport. 

The brace was struck by a speeding Tesla, driven by 66-year-old Jia Lin Zheng who collided with their car aft smashing into a Waymo robotaxi. 

Seven others were besides injured successful the mangled wreckage that near shattered lives.

Luu, who survived the clang but suffered terrible injuries including breached bones and a concussion, recounted the heartbreaking moments earlier the calamity revealing however she had a haunting premonition. 

'I retrieve looking implicit to him and saying, "I emotion you," and him saying, "love you too," backmost to me,' she told ABC7. 'Moments later, our lives changed forever.'

'I bash person a flashback of erstwhile I was backmost successful the car and helium was motionless,' Luu said done tears. 'It was like, "Oh my God, Misha," and helium wasn't responding. That's each I remember.'

Luu blacked retired during the clang lone to awaken successful the infirmary wherever she claims to person instinctively known the devastating information that her fellow and canine had some died.

'You tin consciousness their energy, and I didn't consciousness his. I couldn't consciousness Keeper,' she said, mourning the nonaccomplishment of the antheral she described arsenic the emotion of her life. 

'I consciousness similar I'm successful a truly atrocious dream, and I'm trying to aftermath up from it truthful I tin spot him and hug him and archer him however horrible this nightmare is,' she said arsenic she sobbed. 

The mates had been readying their aboriginal together. 'He was a shot of joyousness - kind, smart, and romantic,' she said. 'He brought happiness to everyone astir him.'

Despite her carnal injuries, Luu near the infirmary to be Romanenko's funeral, determined to grant his memory.

'I privation to unrecorded with a benignant heart, conscionable similar him,' she said. 'He was my everything. He was a genuinely peculiar idiosyncratic who near a people connected everyone helium met.'

The Tesla driver, Jia Lin Zheng, was arrested connected suspicion of felony vehicular manslaughter, reckless driving causing injury, and speeding. 

While a humor intoxicant screening conducted hours aft the clang did not bespeak intoxicant successful Zheng's system, authorities are investigating whether drugs oregon different factors were involved.

District Attorney Brooke Jenkins emphasized the value of a thorough investigation. 

'It is captious that we instrumentality the clip to diligently comb done each of the grounds and stitchery arsenic overmuch accusation arsenic imaginable truthful that we're capable to marque the close charging decision,' she said successful a statement.

Luu, alongside Romanenko's grieving household and friends, is demanding accountability. 'He took distant a really, truly large person,' she said. 'I privation justness for Misha.'

Romanenko's mother, Julia, has besides spoken retired expressing vexation implicit the city's progressively unsafe roads. 

'Something needs to beryllium done. Just knowing however galore car accidents and hit-and-runs determination are, it is precise hard to judge that it continues, leaving truthful galore radical successful pain.

'It is simply a immense loss,' she said. 'He dispersed truthful overmuch joyousness and laughter. We are getting truthful galore recollections from friends and families who were touched by his love.' 

His mother, who works arsenic a hospice nurse, has helped countless families header with nonaccomplishment - but she confessed that thing could person prepared her for the abrupt decease of her youngest son. 

'Knowing everything, it is inactive the hardest happening I person travel crossed successful my life,' she explained.

'He had truthful overmuch near to give. He was loved by everyone who knew him, and present he’s gone.'

Romanenko's decease marked the city's 2nd postulation fatality this year, portion 2024 saw 41 lives mislaid to crashes, much than the city's 34 homicides during the aforesaid period.

The intersection of Sixth and Harrison, wherever the clang occurred, is simply a known hotspot for accidents. 

'Something needs to beryllium done,' Julia said to the San Francisco Chronicle. 'Just knowing however galore car accidents and hit-and-runs determination are, it is precise hard to judge that it continues, leaving truthful galore radical successful pain.' 

Friends and loved ones of Romanenko accidental they retrieve his smile, his compassionate heart, and the joyousness helium brought to others. 

A UC Irvine postgraduate with a grade successful mathematics, Romanenko worked arsenic a bundle technologist astatine a task superior institution successful the Bay Area. 

Aside from his nonrecreational achievements, Romanenko was an accomplished jock and grew up swimming, cycling, running, and surfing.

He and his older member often competed unneurotic successful triathlons, forging bonds of brotherhood done their shared passionateness for endurance sports. 

Those adjacent to him described him arsenic a 'ball of joy,' ever anxious to assistance others and bring positivity into the lives of everyone helium met. 

Luu and Romanenko's household are channeling their grief into preserving his memory, ensuring his bequest of kindness and emotion continues to inspire.