SAN JOSE — A motorcyclist was killed in a collision early Tuesday morning after colliding with a middle median on the street, in keeping with authorities.
San Jose police responded at about 1:16 a.m. to the intersection of San Tomas Expressway and Payne Avenue, in keeping with a information launch.
A lady working a motorbike was touring south on San Tomas Expressway and approached the intersection with Payne Avenue, police mentioned. The lady crashed with a curb after leaving the roadway, hitting the middle median of westbound Payne Avenue. Police mentioned she was carrying a helmet on the time of the crash.
She sustained life-threatening accidents and was taken to an area hospital, the place she died. The lady’s identification will probably be launched by the Santa Clara County Coroner’s Workplace.
The demise marked the fifteenth roadway fatality of this 12 months. Final 12 months, 60 individuals died in crashes in San Jose, matching totals from 2015 and 2019. That whole didn’t embody an individual who died in January of accidents sustained throughout a crash in October, as a result of police depend that demise as a part of this 12 months’s quantity.