San Jose, California: One Dead, Four Injured in Two-Vehicle Crash on Tully Road

SAN JOSE, California (Orbit Post) - One person was killed and four others were injured on Sunday evening when two vehicles collided on Tully Road in East San Jose, the San Jose Police Department said.

The collision happened just before 5:45 p.m. on Tully Road between South White Road and Glen Angus Way, according to police. A San Jose Fire Department spokesperson said the person who died was a passenger in one of the vehicles. The driver of that vehicle suffered life threatening injuries. The second vehicle carried three people, and all three had less severe injuries, the fire department said.

All four injured people were taken to a hospital, officials said. A second report of the crash, published by Pacific Attorney Group from the police account, said the passenger was declared dead at the scene and put the time of the wreck at about 5:44 p.m. on November 8. Investigators had not established the exact circumstances of the collision on Sunday night, that report said.

Roads closed around the scene

Police closed southbound lanes on South White Road between Cunningham Avenue and Tully Road. Tully Road itself was closed between South White Road and East Capitol Expressway while officers worked at the scene, police said. The second report said Tully Road was shut in both directions while authorities examined and cleared the area.

The San Jose Police Department is investigating the cause of the crash. Police had not released the name of the person who died in the reports published on Sunday night and Monday morning, and they had not announced any arrest or citation in the accounts of the crash published by then.

A corridor with a hard fall

Sunday's crash was the latest fatal collision on or near Tully Road this fall. On Oct. 10, one person was killed in a multi vehicle pileup on southbound Highway 101 just north of the Tully Road off ramp, the California Highway Patrol said at the time. In September, a man riding an electric bicycle in the marked bike lane on westbound Tully Road, just before the northbound entrance to Highway 101, was struck and killed by a dump truck during the morning commute, KTVU reported. Police said at the time that the death was the city's 32nd traffic death of the year, up from 22 at the same point the year before.

Tully Road is one of the main east to west routes across East San Jose, and the closed stretch sits between Highway 101 and East Capitol Expressway. The police reports published by Monday morning gave no time for the last closed lane to reopen, and no update on the condition of the driver with life threatening injuries.