{"id":327059,"date":"2026-05-22T01:07:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T01:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/327059\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T01:07:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T01:07:48","slug":"stalled-damaged-semi-truck-prompts-power-shutoff-for-thousands-in-san-jose-road-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/327059\/","title":{"rendered":"Stalled damaged semi-truck prompts power shutoff for thousands in San Jose, road closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">San Jose firefighters are on the scene, and PG&amp;E shut off power to thousands of customers Thursday due to a semi-truck with a damaged axle at risk of rolling over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials say the semi-truck crashed around 9:30 a.m. when the driver tried to make a turn and the rear became dislodged.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It is stalled at 1st Street and E. Alma Avenue. San Jose Fire Department says the power was shut off around 1:30 p.m. to at least 7,000 customers because the semi was at risk of damaging a nearby power pole if it were to roll over. The semi is hauling nearly 80,000 pounds of scrap metal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The fire department said the nearby Sacred Heart Community Service building was evacuated as a precaution.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials estimated power to be restored around 5 p.m. As of 2:35 p.m., at least 3,800 customers were still without power.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Traffic is impacted in all directions as crews work to tow away the vehicle. Drivers are asked to use alternative routes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No injuries have been reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Stay with ABC7 Eyewitness News for the latest details on this developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose firefighters are on the scene, and PG&amp;E shut off power to thousands of customers Thursday due&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[3604,4967,88,16912,64866,90,89,14896],"class_list":["post-327059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-pge","tag-power-pole","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-fire-department","tag-san-jose-firefighters","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-semi-truck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327059","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=327059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}