{"id":500632,"date":"2026-10-19T01:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T01:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/500632\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T01:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T01:54:09","slug":"officers-probe-stabbings-crash-wrong-way-driver-on-south-bay-roads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/500632\/","title":{"rendered":"Officers probe stabbings, crash, wrong-way driver on South Bay roads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SAN JOSE \u2014 A woman stabbed her spouse in Hollister, carjacked two vehicles, then fled at high speeds along South Bay roads before stabbing herself fatally next to a San Jose freeway on Saturday, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was first reported around 10 a.m. on Saturday when the state CHP received a report of a wrong-way driver in the area of Hollister and the Casa de Fruta historic resort, roadway attraction and fruit stand.<\/p>\n<p>A 34-year-old female assaulted her spouse with a knife in Hollister, said CHP Sgt. Cary Martin. The woman then took her sister\u2019s vehicle \u201cby force\u201d and then fled that location, Martin said.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was driving on the wrong side of State Route 152 and hit a vehicle head-on just west of Casa de Fruta, according to the CHP. The head-on collision involved a Chevrolet SUV, a CHP incident log states.<\/p>\n<p>The woman then exited her sister\u2019s vehicle and carjacked a bystander who was not involved in any of the prior incidents. The woman fled the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after racing away from Casa de Fruta, the 34-year-old female bypassed vehicles on the right-hand shoulder and cut off other cars, CHP incident logs posted on Saturday show.<\/p>\n<p>Gilroy police then located the carjacked vehicle and began chasing the woman, who reportedly was in a Honda Accord at that point. Gilroy police, however, lost track of the speeding vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, the vehicle came to a stop on the shoulder of northbound U.S. Highway 101 just south of Bernal Road in San Jose, Sgt. Martin said.<\/p>\n<p>The unidentified <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2026\/10\/17\/police-woman-dies-after-harming-herself-along-highway-in-san-jose\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">female inflicted several stab wounds to herself<\/a> after exiting her vehicle on northbound U.S. Highway 101 near Bernal Road in south San Jose, the California Highway Patrol and San Jose police stated.<\/p>\n<p>Several people called 911 and reported the woman was stabbing herself, Sgt. Martin said.<\/p>\n<p>San Jose police officers arrived on the scene and encountered the woman. She was transported to Regional Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, according to the CHP.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation into the incidents is ongoing, CHP officers stated.<\/p>\n<p>If you or someone you know is struggling with feelings of depression or suicidal thoughts, the 988 Suicide &amp; Crisis Lifeline offers free, round-the-clock support, information and resources for help. Call or text the lifeline at 988, or see the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/988lifeline.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">988lifeline.org<\/a>\u00a0website, where chat is available.<\/p>\n<p>Staff writer Grant Stringer contributed to this report<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2014 A woman stabbed her spouse in Hollister, carjacked two vehicles, then fled at high speeds&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[4846,184,861,7,8,1531,138,187,1533,181,23,100,42552,88,90,89,198,94685,200,201],"class_list":["post-500632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-accidents","tag-bay-area","tag-bay-area-crime","tag-california","tag-california-news","tag-crashes-and-disasters","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-gilroy","tag-keywee","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-san-benito-county","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-social-alert","tag-south-bay","tag-south-san-jose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500632","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=500632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}