{"id":402189,"date":"2026-07-17T12:32:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/402189\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T12:32:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T12:32:26","slug":"pedestrian-hit-and-killed-by-driver-in-san-jose-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/402189\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian hit and killed by driver in San Jose"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN JOSE \u2013 A man died after he was hit by a motorist Tuesday night as he walked across West Capitol Expressway, police said.<\/p>\n

The collision was reported at 8:56 p.m.<\/a> An initial investigation by San Jose police determined that a man driving a black 2018 Tesla sedan was traveling east just past Copperfield Drive when he hit a pedestrian, who died at the scene.<\/p>\n

The man\u2019s name was not publicly released pending his formal identification and notification of his next of kin by the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

The Tesla driver stopped after the collision and spoke to traffic investigators. Afterward, police said he and two minors riding in his vehicle were taken to a hospital for treatment of what were described only as non-life threatening injuries.<\/p>\n

There was no indication from police that the driver was cited or arrested, or whether the vehicle was using self-driving technology at the time of the crash. Police noted in a news release Wednesday that the deceased man was not in a marked crosswalk when the collision occurred, but in California street crossings outside of marked crosswalks are legal if they seemingly can be completed safely.<\/p>\n

Tuesday night\u2019s collision marked the city\u2019s 25th traffic death of the year and the 11th to involve a pedestrian who died. San Jose recorded 15 traffic deaths, seven involving pedestrians, at the same point in 2025, according to data compiled by this news organization.<\/p>\n

Anyone with information for investigators can contact the SJPD traffic investigations unit at 408-277-4654 or email Detective Tori DelliCarpini at\u00a04103@sanjoseca.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Staff writer Robert Salonga contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2013 A man died after he was hit by a motorist Tuesday night as he walked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341781,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,7,8197,350,100,984,88,90,89,198,200,25811],"class_list":["post-402189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-collision","tag-crash","tag-news","tag-pedestrian","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-south-bay","tag-traffic-fatality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402189","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=402189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}