A wrong-way crash on State Road 87 in San Jose left one man dead and two women with major injuries late Sunday night, closing all northbound lanes for roughly 50 minutes as emergency crews worked the scene north of Capitol Expressway.
A Honda driven by a 37-year-old San Jose resident was traveling the wrong way on State Road 87 north of Capitol Expressway when it collided with a Rivian, according to a California Highway Patrol San Jose press release reported by KTVU. The Rivian's driver, a 79-year-old San Jose woman, and her passenger, a 74-year-old San Jose woman, both sustained major injuries and were hospitalized for treatment.
CHP San Jose officers were called to the scene at 11:05 p.m. on State Road 87, the station reported. All northbound lanes were closed for approximately 50 minutes while responders worked the crash site, snarling late-night traffic through the area.
Lane Closures Stretched Into the Early Morning
A traffic-monitoring page tracking the incident, CHPFatal, logged all lanes blocked on northbound State Route 87 north of Almaden at 11:28 p.m. By 12:10 a.m., the page reported lane 3 open while lanes 1 and 2 remained closed for an estimated 45 minutes to an hour, and by 1:23 a.m. it reported all lanes had reopened.
Authorities had not released the identities of the three people involved as of the report, and it remains unclear whether drugs or alcohol played a role in the collision, per the same account. The information in KTVU's report was gathered from the CHP San Jose press release.
Part of a String of Wrong-Way Crashes on San Jose Roadways
Part of a String of Wrong-Way Crashes on San Jose Roadways The Sunday night crash is one of several recent wrong-way collisions on San Jose roads. Just two weeks earlier, a wrong-way collision in South San Jose killed one person and injured two others, according to The Mercury News. In that crash, two women in a Honda Accord were traveling westbound in eastbound lanes of Capitol Expressway near Tuers Road just before 6:30 a.m. when they collided head-on with a Toyota Prius; the Honda driver died, the Honda passenger suffered critical injuries, and the Prius driver sustained major injuries.
That October collision was described by the outlet as the city's 41st traffic death of the year investigated by the San Jose Police Department, compared with 29 roadway deaths recorded in the city at the same point in 2025.
A separate wrong-way crash on Highway 87 involved a Dodge Durango traveling northbound in southbound lanes that clipped a Nissan Altima, according to NBC Bay Area. A 36-year-old man riding in the Nissan later died, and the Durango's driver, a 24-year-old Mountain View man, was arrested on suspicion of DUI. That crash happened at about 2:20 a.m. north of Taylor Street, and the station reported CHP said it remained under investigation.
