{"id":451451,"date":"2026-09-02T21:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T21:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/451451\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T21:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T21:38:10","slug":"2-men-killed-in-wrong-way-crash-in-santa-clara-identified-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/451451\/","title":{"rendered":"2 men killed in wrong-way crash in Santa Clara identified \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men who died in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/montague-expressway-crash-santa-clara\/4133563\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">fiery, wrong-way crash in Santa Clara<\/a> last week have been identified, the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>On Aug. 26, police responded to Montague Expressway at the Lafayette Street overpass where they found a GMC SUV on its side and engulfed in flames, and a damaged silver Honda pickup truck. Investigators believe that the SUV driver was driving in the wrong direction on northbound Montague Expressway and collided with the Honda.<\/p>\n<p>The people killed in the crash were 58-year-old Stephen Hinkson of San Carlos and 39-year-old Keith Demarest, whose city of residence was not released.<\/p>\n<p>Information on who drove which vehicle was not immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men who died in a fiery, wrong-way crash in Santa Clara last week have been identified, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451452,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89,197],"class_list":["post-451451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451451","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=451451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}