Casie Hyde 16 years young Road rage suspected in crash that killed student Police seek information on a black pickup that may have forced Casie Hyde's car to hit a power-line pole. By Deepa Bharath Daily Breeze Someone may have deliberately forced a 16-year-old Mira Costa High School student off the road Friday night, an incident that proved fatal for the girl who died at the scene just blocks away from her Redondo Beach home, police said. Redondo Beach police are looking for a small black pickup truck, which may have caused Casie Hyde to crash her BMW into a power-line pole on Manhattan Beach Boulevard, Sgt. Phil Keenan said Sunday. Casie's mother, Kelli Rigby-Hyde, said Mike Archuletta, Casie's 19- year-old boyfriend who was a passenger in the BMW at the time of the incident, told officials Sunday that the in-cident was not a common traffic accident. Archuletta was ad- mitted to County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, where he remained Sunday in the intensive care unit, she said. "It came as such a shock to me," said Rigby-Hyde, grieving the loss of her only child. "If it's an accident I can understand that. But when you hear that someone did it intentionally, it's hard to swallow." She said Archuletta is "doing better" and was taken off the ventilator Saturday night. Keenan said witnesses on Friday saw the black truck turn from northbound Inglewood Avenue to westbound Manhattan Beach Boulevard. Casie was also traveling westbound on Manhattan Beach Boulevard at the time of the crash, he said. "The truck wasn't following the victim from a distance," Keenan said. "But we believe that (Casie) might have cut off the person in the truck. We don't know for sure, but something caused this road rage." The truck tried to force Casie off the road a couple of times before succeeding the third time, Keenan said. Police do not have a driver description, but believe that the truck may have been an '80s or '90s model. Road rage situations that end in deaths are still rare, Keenan said. "Such reactions from drivers who are enraged is very common," he said. "We get quite a few road rage complaints from people who say that someone tried to force them off the road. This is one case where the consequence turned out to be extremely serious." Casie's family and friends, who held a vigil for the teenager Sunday night on the Manhattan Beach Pier, are asking that anyone who saw the suspect pickup truck come forward with information so justice can be served, said her cousin Courtney Meister. "This senseless tragedy is something we wish we didn't have to deal with," she said. "You never think anything like this could happen to you." Meister said Casie and her family were temporarily living in Redondo Beach because their Manhattan Beach home was being remodeled. Casie, who worked at Pancho's restaurant in Manhattan Beach, had finished her hostess shift at 9:30 p.m. on Friday, less than two hours before the crash. Deadly Roads - Hit and Run Accidents