{"id":415269,"date":"2026-07-28T15:11:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T15:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/415269\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T15:11:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T15:11:17","slug":"separate-crashes-in-south-bay-leave-three-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/415269\/","title":{"rendered":"Separate crashes in South Bay leave three dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SANTA CLARA COUNTY \u2013 Three people were killed in separate crashes over the weekend in southern Santa Clara County, according to the California Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>The first incident happened around 5:10 p.m. Saturday on Highway 101 near the Sargent overcrossing. The CHP said officers arrived to find a damaged Honda motorcycle and its rider nearby with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The motorcyclist, identified as a 45-year-old Watsonville woman, died from her injuries according to the CHP.<\/p>\n<p>The second collision, which also involved a motorcycle, happened around 2:40 p.m. Sunday on Highway 152 at Ferguson Road. The CHP said a Harley-Davidson crashed into a Chevrolet Silverado towing a trailer.<\/p>\n<p>The motorcyclist, identified as a 34-year-old San Jose man, died from his injuries, according to the CHP.<\/p>\n<p>The third incident happened roughly two hours later on Bolsa Road, north of Bloomfield Road. The CHP said a Ford F-150 crashed head-on into a Toyota pickup.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Toyota, identified as a 56-year-old Aptos man, died from his injuries, according to the CHP.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the other driver tried to leave the scene on foot but collapsed, the CHP said, adding that the person was arrested on suspicion of fleeing the scene of a crash.<\/p>\n<p>The Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner\u2019s Office will release the identities of the three people who died once they are confirmed and their next of kin are identified.<\/p>\n<p>The crashes are under investigation and no potential causes have been ruled out, according to the CHP.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information related to the cases can contact the CHP Hollister-Gilroy area office at 408-427-0700.<\/p>\n<p>Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANTA CLARA COUNTY \u2013 Three people were killed in separate crashes over the weekend in southern Santa Clara&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":415270,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,7,8197,350,2685,100,88,90,89,198,200,25811,1967],"class_list":["post-415269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-collision","tag-crash","tag-motorcycle","tag-news","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-south-bay","tag-traffic-fatality","tag-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415269","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=415269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/415269\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/415270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=415269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=415269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=415269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}