{"id":248230,"date":"2026-04-02T09:26:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/248230\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T09:26:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T09:26:35","slug":"teen-driver-arrested-for-dui-after-deadly-san-jose-crash-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/248230\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen driver arrested for DUI after deadly San Jose crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The crash occurred just after 1 a.m. Sunday near Curtner Avenue and the southbound Highway 87 off-ramp in San Jose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say a 2022 Honda Accord, driven by the boy, was traveling westbound on Curtner Avenue when it struck a 2003 Chevy Malibu sedan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The driver was then booked into the Santa Clara County Juvenile Hall for driving under the influence and vehicular manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8211; Police in San Jose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sjpd.org\/Home\/Components\/News\/News\/2747\/262\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:arrested a juvenile boy for driving under the influence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;arrested a juvenile boy for driving under the influence&quot;}\" class=\"link \">arrested a juvenile boy for driving under the influence<\/a> following a deadly crash overnight Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The crash occurred just after 1 a.m. Sunday near Curtner Avenue and the southbound Highway 87 off-ramp in San Jose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say a 2022 Honda Accord, driven by the boy, was traveling westbound on Curtner Avenue when it struck a 2003 Chevy Malibu sedan. Police say the Chevy was turning onto eastbound Curtner Avenue from the southbound Highway 87 off-ramp when the crash occurred.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The driver of the Chevy Malibu, only identified as an adult male, died at the scene, according to San Jose police.<\/p>\n<p>Driver arrested for DUI, vehicular manslaughter<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The backstory<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The juvenile driver, along with his adult female passenger, were taken to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The driver was then booked into the Santa Clara County Juvenile Hall for driving under the influence and vehicular manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police have not shared the boy&#8217;s age, though the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastbaytimes.com\/2026\/03\/30\/dui-arrest-for-teen-in-fatal-san-jose-collision\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Mercury News reported;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Mercury News reported&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Mercury News reported<\/a> he is 17-years-old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say this was the 10th fatal traffic collision in San Jose this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The victim&#8217;s identity has not been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">San Jose Police Department and reporting on the suspect&#8217;s age from the Mercury News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief The crash occurred just after 1 a.m. Sunday near Curtner Avenue and the southbound Highway 87&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[110771,16023,88,90,89,2125,110770,7349],"class_list":{"0":"post-248230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-curtner-avenue","9":"tag-driving-under-the-influence","10":"tag-san-jose","11":"tag-san-jose-headlines","12":"tag-san-jose-news","13":"tag-san-jose-police-department","14":"tag-southbound-highway-87","15":"tag-vehicular-manslaughter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248230","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=248230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}