joint statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cThe employee, from the Department of Transportation, was fatally injured while repairing a streetlight \u2014 helping to keep San Jose drivers and pedestrians safe,\u201d the statement continued. \u201cWe are deeply heartbroken about his passing and grateful for his public service.\u201d<\/p>\n
The statement did not identify the worker. It also did not provide any additional details about how he died, but the wording suggested he may have been hit by a motorist.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe urge the public to keep your attention on the road,\u201d the statement said. \u201cAlways slow down and make space for maintenance workers, construction crews, and emergency services stopped in the roadway.\u201d<\/p>\n
Spokespersons for the city manager\u2019s office, mayor and San Jose Police Department did not immediately return a message seeking additional details about the case.<\/p>\n
Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2014 A city worker was killed while repairing a streetlight Tuesday in San Jose, officials said.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[13856,184,7,339,100,88,90,89,198,200],"class_list":["post-443881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-accident","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-death","tag-news","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-south-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443881","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=443881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}