{"id":297471,"date":"2026-05-03T03:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T03:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/297471\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T03:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T03:50:08","slug":"one-dead-after-fatal-multi-car-crash-in-south-san-jose-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/297471\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead after fatal multi-car crash in south San Jose \u2013 The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Jose police responded to a fatal multi-vehicle collision on Saturday afternoon, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sjpd_pio\/status\/2050735055656673599?s=46\" rel=\"nofollow\">social media post on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The collision occurred in the area of Blossom Hill Road and Santa Teresa Boulevard around 3:54 p.m. One woman was pronounced deceased at the hospital. Several people were transported to local hospitals with varying injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Police closed the entire intersection and surrounding streets to investigate the crash. Authorities notified the public on X to avoid the area and use alternate routes because they anticipate the closure to last several hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose police responded to a fatal multi-vehicle collision on Saturday afternoon, according to a social media post&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,861,26949,7,8,1531,138,181,23,100,88,90,89,2125,198,200,2442,201,16217],"class_list":["post-297471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-bay-area","tag-bay-area-crime","tag-blossom-valley","tag-california","tag-california-news","tag-crashes-and-disasters","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-police-department","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-south-bay","tag-south-bay-crime","tag-south-san-jose","tag-traffic-fatalities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297471","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=297471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}