{"id":156887,"date":"2026-01-30T19:27:36","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/156887\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T19:27:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:27:36","slug":"motorcycle-crash-kills-san-jose-man-on-highway-9-los-gatan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/156887\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle crash kills San Jose man on Highway 9 | Los Gatan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/losgatan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/2024\/02\/CHP-Generic.jpeg\" data-caption=\"Parked California Highway Patrol cars. (Tarmo Hannula \/ Los Gatan)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"476\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/CHP-Generic-696x476.jpeg\"  data- alt=\"\" title=\"CHP Generic\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 696px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 696\/476;\"\/><\/a>Parked California Highway Patrol cars. (Tarmo Hannula \/ Los Gatan)<\/p>\n<p class=\"dropcapp4\">A 31-year-old San Jose man was killed in a motorcycle crash in the Santa Cruz Mountains yesterday, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, around 5:54 p.m., police responded to a crash on Highway 9, south of State Route 35, according to the CHP.<\/p>\n<p>The man was driving a 2017 Suzuki GSX-R600 motorcycle at an unknown speed southbound on\u00a0State Route 9 south of State Route 35, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The driver lost control of the Suzuki, for reasons under investigation, and it collided with a portion of the asphalt road.<\/p>\n<p>After the initial crash,\u00a0the vehicle kept on moving south, leaving the roadway.<\/p>\n<p>The motorcycle crashed into a tree, and the driver came to rest down an embankment.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was pronounced deceased at the scene by medical\u00a0personnel.\u00a0The death was determined to have been caused by the crash itself, though the cause of the crash is not yet known.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear if alcohol and\/or drugs were factors in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Lieutenant Grant Boles, the acting commander of the CHP Santa Cruz Area office, is reminding everyone \u201cthat it is important for motorcyclists to minimize their risks by riding\u00a0responsibly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That includes \u201calways wearing a helmet and other protective gear\u201d and \u201cand \u201cnever riding after\u00a0consuming alcohol or drugs, while fatigued,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Parked California Highway Patrol cars. (Tarmo Hannula \/ Los Gatan) A 31-year-old San Jose man was killed in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[852,8296,76740,2685,88,90,89,3234,27191],"class_list":["post-156887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-chp","tag-fatal-crash","tag-highway-9","tag-motorcycle","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-cruz-county","tag-santa-cruz-mountains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}