{"id":381045,"date":"2026-06-30T19:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T19:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/381045\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T19:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T19:24:12","slug":"three-people-identified-in-deadly-highway-9-crash-outside-saratoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/381045\/","title":{"rendered":"Three people identified in deadly Highway 9 crash outside Saratoga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 17-year-old boy from San Jose and two adults were identified Tuesday as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/06\/23\/three-killed-in-highway-9-crash-outside-saratoga\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">three people killed in a crash<\/a> in late June off Highway 9 near Saratoga.<\/p>\n<p>Ranvir Randhawa, 17, died in the June 22 crash, alongside Manjot Dhaliwal, 21, and Ajesh Saini, 27, according to the Santa Clara County Office of the Medical Examiner-Coroner. Dhaliwal hailed from Yuba City, while Saini was from Salem, Ore., the agency said.<\/p>\n<p>All three of them were in a 2024 BMW M3 sedan around 9:30 that evening when it went off Highway 9 east of Redwood Gulch Road and crashed down an embankment, according to the California Highway Patrol. Authorities suspect the sedan\u2019s driver lost control of the car at some point, but a more precise cause for the crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The wreck shut down the highway for about three hours while investigators examined the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Jakob Rodgers is a senior breaking news reporter. Call, text or send him an encrypted message via Signal at 510-390-2351, or email him at jrodgers@bayareanewsgroup.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 17-year-old boy from San Jose and two adults were identified Tuesday as the three people killed in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[4846,389,184,861,7,8,1531,138,332,76740,181,23,41706,100,88,90,89,198,199,94685,200,2442,16217],"class_list":["post-381045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-accidents","tag-alameda-county","tag-bay-area","tag-bay-area-crime","tag-california","tag-california-news","tag-crashes-and-disasters","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-east-bay","tag-highway-9","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-newark","tag-news","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-saratoga","tag-social-alert","tag-south-bay","tag-south-bay-crime","tag-traffic-fatalities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381045","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=381045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}