SAN JOSE — When Lucy Prieto Frescas tried to catch a VTA bus earlier this month, she wasn’t sporting a mandated COVID face masks, so the motive force wouldn’t let her board. Because the bus pulled away, Frescas tripped and fell, and was run over by the again wheels, police mentioned.
On Monday, she died from her accidents, in keeping with San Jose police, turning into the ninth pedestrian killed within the metropolis already this 12 months.
Police are nonetheless investigating the accident, which was reported at 5:53 p.m. Feb. 9 on the bus cease at Senter Street and Needles Drive in central San Jose. It wasn’t clear Wednesday whether or not the girl was supplied a masks as she tried to board the bus, however a VTA spokeswoman mentioned she refused to put on one.
California dropped statewide masks mandates for a lot of indoor conditions earlier this month, however masks are nonetheless required on public transit in addition to at airports and well being care services. Santa Clara County additionally nonetheless mandates masks indoors.
“It’s a really complicated scenario. Passengers don’t at all times know they should put on masks,” mentioned John Courtney, president of the VTA union that represents bus drivers.
Stacey Hendler Ross, a VTA spokesperson, mentioned the girl tried to board the Route 73 bus on the entrance door. When the motive force advised her she couldn’t trip, she returned to the sidewalk and because the bus pulled away she stepped off the curb and “chased after the coach and fell.”
“I don’t know the particular change between them besides that she refused to place a masks on,” Hendler Ross mentioned.
VTA bus drivers have had masks to share with riders through the pandemic though they typically run out, mentioned Armando Barbosa, a veteran driver.
On Wednesday, the girl’s brother, Rudolfo Frescas, mentioned his 59-year-old sister’s dying was a tragic finish to “a reasonably tough life.” He didn’t know the main points of what occurred, however mentioned “she had issue with guidelines that a lot of individuals usually needed to abide by.”
The bus driver had graduated from a driver coaching course in June and began working the bus in July, Hendler Ross mentioned. The motive force returned to work two days after the incident as soon as a drug and alcohol take a look at got here again destructive and an preliminary VTA investigation deemed that he acted correctly, she mentioned.
“[The driver] didn’t know that the individual was going to run after the bus behind him,” mentioned Hendler Ross. “So far as he knew he pulled away from the curb in a secure method.”
The bus driver pulled over after the collision.
Police are treating the dying as town’s seventeenth visitors fatality of the 12 months, and the ninth to contain a pedestrian who died. San Jose had recorded 5 visitors deaths on the similar level in 2021, a 12 months that noticed a 20-year peak of 60 roadway fatalities, and 2022 continues to be far forward of that tempo.
Anybody with details about the incident can contact SJPD visitors Detective Eliseo Malvido at 408-277-4654.
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