Three people were killed Monday night after a car crashed off Highway 9 and down a steep embankment near Saratoga in the Santa Cruz Mountains, according to the California Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n
CHP’s San Jose office said officers responded at about 9:36 p.m. to a report of a crash on State Route 9, west of Redwood Gulch Road. When officers arrived, they determined the crash involved fatal injuries.<\/p>\n
Preliminary information indicates a 2024 BMW M3 was traveling eastbound on Highway 9 when the driver, a 21-year-old man from Yuba City, lost control of the vehicle. The car left the roadway and went down a steep embankment.<\/p>\n
The driver and two passengers were killed in the crash. CHP identified the passengers as a 27-year-old man from Salem, Oregon, and a 17-year-old boy from San Jose.<\/p>\n
Highway 9 was closed in both directions for about three hours while investigators examined the scene and crews recovered the vehicle.<\/p>\n
The cause of the crash remains under investigation. CHP said all information is preliminary and subject to change.<\/p>\n
Anyone who witnessed the crash or has information is asked to contact the CHP San Jose Area Office at 408-961-0900.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people were killed Monday night after a car crashed off Highway 9 and down a steep embankment…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":372677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89,199],"class_list":["post-372676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-saratoga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372676","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=372676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}