{"id":324854,"date":"2026-05-20T17:43:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T17:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/324854\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T17:43:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T17:43:30","slug":"car-crashes-catches-fire-in-san-jose-connector-ramp-closed-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/324854\/","title":{"rendered":"Car crashes, catches fire in San Jose, connector ramp closed"},"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\">A car crashed and caught on fire in San Jose Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">CHP San Jose said the connector ramp at northbound SR 87 and Interstate 280 is closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Avoid the area and use alternate routes. No information on the driver or possible injuries was available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8211; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/organization\/chp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:California Highway Patrol;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;California Highway Patrol&quot;}\" class=\"link \">California Highway Patrol <\/a>in San Jose are investigating a single-car crash on northbound State Route 87 at Interstate 280.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The car caught on fire, CHP said in a social media post just after 10 p.m. on Tuesday. The connector ramp is closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials said they will update on when the roadway is reopened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It is not clear what caused the driver to crash. There was no update on the driver&#8217;s condition or if that driver was alone in the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No further information was immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief A car crashed and caught on fire in San Jose Tuesday night. CHP San Jose said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[2751,859,135191,16404,88,90,89],"class_list":["post-324854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-alternate-routes","tag-california-highway-patrol","tag-chp-san-jose","tag-interstate-280","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324854","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=324854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}