Authorities recognized the person killed in a site visitors collision over the weekend when the motive force of the sedan he was driving in crashed right into a tree in East San Jose.
The person — recognized as 38-year-old San Jose resident Richard Ortiz — was a passenger in a 2000 Toyota sedan within the crash that occurred at about 11:45 p.m., in response to the San Jose Police Division. The driving force was touring north on South White Highway when she went off the street close to Castleton Drive and hit a tree.
Ortiz was pronounced useless after being taken to a hospital, in response to police. The girl driving the automotive was additionally hospitalized. She was booked into the Santa Clara County jail on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter and driving beneath the affect in reference to the crash.
The demise marked the 14th roadway fatality of the yr. Final yr, 60 folks died in crashes in San Jose, matching totals from 2015 and 2019. That whole didn’t embrace 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 yr’s quantity.