{"id":401432,"date":"2026-07-16T23:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T23:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/401432\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T23:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T23:22:08","slug":"chp-arrests-driver-in-deadly-2025-crash-on-highway-87-in-san-jose-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/401432\/","title":{"rendered":"CHP arrests driver in deadly 2025 crash on Highway 87 in San Jose \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The California Highway Patrol arrested a driver who the agency determined to be at fault in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/fiery-crash-highway-87-san-jose\/3990027\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">fiery San Jose crash<\/a> that left a mother and her child dead late last year.<\/p>\n<p>Zachary Chernicky of San Jose was arrested without incident on Monday in connection with the deadly wreck on Highway 87 on Dec. 2, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened in the northbound direction of the highway near Curtner Avenue, the CHP said. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/victims-fiery-crash-highway-87-san-jose-identified\/3991314\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Ivana Balistreri and her young daughter Lilliana<\/a> were killed. At least two other people were injured.<\/p>\n<p>Two Tesla vehicles, a Lexus and a Toyota Sienna were involved in the crash, the CHP said. Three of those vehicles \u2013 both Teslas and the Lexus \u2013 caught fire. Ivana and Lilliana were passengers in the Lexus. Chernicky was driving one of the Teslas, the CHP said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash, cleanup and investigation shut down northbound Highway 87 for several hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The California Highway Patrol arrested a driver who the agency determined to be at fault in a fiery&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-401432","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\/401432","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=401432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}