{"id":8100,"date":"2025-10-16T16:10:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/8100\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T16:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T16:10:06","slug":"man-lying-in-alley-fatally-struck-in-san-jose-by-garbage-truck-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/8100\/","title":{"rendered":"Man lying in alley fatally struck in San Jose by garbage truck driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/bascom.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">2800 block of Bascom Avenue in San Jose. Photo: Google Street View\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8211; A man lying in a driveway and covered in blankets in the back alley of a strip mall was killed when he was run over by a garbage truck in San Jose early Thursday morning,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sjpd.org\/Home\/Components\/News\/News\/2541\/262?backlist=%2fabout-us%2forganization%2foffice-of-the-chief-of-police%2fmedia-relations-pio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> police said.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The man, who wasn&#8217;t identified, was in the alley in a mall in the 2800 block of Bascom Avenue when he was struck and pronounced dead on scene about 4 a.m., according to Sgt. Jorge Garibay.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The driver of the 2020 blue Peterbilt garbage truck was traveling westbound on Shamrock Drive and turning northbound into the rear alley the mall, when he struck the man.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The driver of the garbage truck remained on scene and is cooperating with the investigation, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">This is San Jose&#8217;s 29th traffic death of 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The identity of the victim will be released by the Santa Clara County Office of the Medical Examiner.<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">In February 2022, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/woman-killed-by-garbage-truck-while-taking-out-her-trash-in-san-jose\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">garbage truck driver killed a 63-year-old woman<\/a> as she was taking out her trash in San Jose.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">At the time, police said the woman appeared to be in the driver&#8217;s blind spot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/santa-clara-county\/san-jose\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article 2800 block of Bascom Avenue in San Jose. Photo: Google Street View\u00a0 SAN JOSE, Calif. &#8211; A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1184,100,88,90,89,198,1181],"class_list":{"0":"post-8100","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-san-jose","11":"tag-san-jose-headlines","12":"tag-san-jose-news","13":"tag-santa-clara-county","14":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8100","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=8100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}