A driver who crashed while fleeing police over the weekend in San Jose has been charged with homicide and reckless driving after his passenger died in the collision.<\/p>\n
Justin Buban, 38, was allegedly driving recklessly when Santa Clara police spotted his gold Buick on Stevens Creek Boulevard about 12:15 a.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n
Police said the Buick was speeding, ran several red lights and was driving on the center median and on the wrong side of the road.<\/p>\n
Officers caught up to the Buick on Interstate 880 and tried to pull the car over, but the driver didn’t stop. They chased the Buick on I-880, through streets in Santa Clara and into San Jose.<\/p>\n
As the pursuit continued into San Jose, the Buick ran a red light and collided with another car at the intersection of Naglee and Park avenues in San Jose. The Buick then hit a traffic pole at the intersection.<\/p>\n
The Buick’s passenger, whose name was not released, died at the scene. Two people in the second car were taken to a hospital with minor injuries.<\/p>\n
Buban was transported to a hospital, where he remains in custody. The Santa Clara County District Attorney has filed several charges against Buban, including homicide, reckless driving and driving under the influence causing bodily injury.<\/p>\n
Anyone with information on the crash is asked to contact San Jose Police Department’s Traffic Investigations Unit at (408) 277-4654.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver who crashed while fleeing police over the weekend in San Jose has been charged with homicide…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-367417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","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\/367417","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=367417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}