{"id":452847,"date":"2026-09-04T02:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T02:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/452847\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T02:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T02:44:11","slug":"victims-identified-in-fiery-santa-clara-wrong-way-crash-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/452847\/","title":{"rendered":"Victims identified in fiery Santa Clara wrong-way crash \u2013 The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities have identified the two people who died in a fiery wrong-way crash in Santa Clara last week.<\/p>\n<p>The two people killed were identified as 39-year-old Keith Demarest and 58-year-old Stephen Hinkson, a resident of San Carlos, according to the Santa Clara County Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities did not know Demarest\u2019s city of residence.<\/p>\n<p>The incident <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/08\/26\/investigation-underway-into-fatal-crash-in-santa-clara\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">occurred just before noon on Aug. 26 when a man drove his GMC SUV in the wrong direction on northbound Montague Expressway<\/a>. He collided with a silver Honda pickup truck that was traveling in the northbound direction. Authorities have not specified which of the two people killed was the wrong-way driver.<\/p>\n<p>The SUV became fully engulfed in flames and was extinguished by the Santa Clara Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>Both victims died at the scene of the collision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities have identified the two people who died in a fiery wrong-way crash in Santa Clara last week.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,7,1531,138,181,100,88,90,89,197,198,200,16217],"class_list":["post-452847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-crashes-and-disasters","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-south-bay","tag-traffic-fatalities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452847","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=452847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}