(Updated with Sept. 16 and Sept. 17 crashes.)
Nine people have been killed in traffic accidents in the Bay Area since last weekend
Click on the links for the article about each crash.
- Sept. 12, San Jose; Highway 101 and McKee Road. A pedestrian was fatally struck by a southbound car around 8 p.m. The victim was identified as Gabino Garcia-Chavez, 38, of San Jose. The driver and a passenger in the car were injured.
- Sept. 13, Fremont; Highway 84 near Thornton. Michael D. Thomas, 40, of Palo Alto, was killed when his motorcycle was hit from behind by a BMW in the eastbound lanes around 2:20 a.m. The car’s driver was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Another person on the motorcycle was injured.
- Sept. 13, San Jose; Interstate 680 near Jackson. A 36-year-old Merced woman was killed when she lost control of her motorcycle and was hit by two cars in the northbound lanes around 10:30 p.m.
- Sept. 14, Oakland; Interstate 880 near Interstate 80: Isaac Orton, 31, was fatally struck as he attempted to run across the northbound lanes of I-880 around 7:40 p.m.
- Sept. 15, San Jose; Highway 101 and Tully Road. Jose Perez Leyva, 22, of San Jose, was killed when his Honda Accord hit the back of a big rig in the northbound lanes around 1:15 a.m.
- Sept. 15, Oakland; Second Avenue and 12th Street. Lizhu Peng, 67, was killed when her bicycle was hit by a U-Haul van at 12:12 p.m.
- Sept. 16, Sunnyvale; Highway 85 ramp to southbound Interstate 280. A woman about 45 years old was killed at 8:50 a.m. after she lost control of her car on the ramp from northbound 85 to southbound 280. She drove across a dirt gore point and hit another car and then a guardrail. The driver of the other car suffered minor injuries.
- Sept. 17, San Jose; Airport Boulevard at south end of San Jose airport. A driver was killed in a single-car crash around 6:30 p.m. in which a Honda CRV hit a tree and then went into the Guadalupe River.
- Sept. 17, Oakland; Skyline Boulevard near Redwood Road. A passenger was killed in a single-car crash at 10:11 p.m. The driver was injured.
