Crime & Safety
Updated: Construction Worker Fatally Struck By Suspected Drunk Driver
The vehicle also crashed into the rear of a pickup truck and hit a second construction worker
A 20-year-old Gilroy man was arrested on suspicion of felony DUI after fatally striking a construction worker and injuring another alongside Interstate Highway 680 in Milpitas early this morning, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Adrian Valencia Sanchez was arrested after emergency personnel extricated him from a 2000 Nissan Altima damaged in the crash and transported him to a hospital, according to the CHP.
The CHP was dispatched at 2:41 a.m. about a collision involving a white work truck and a silver Nissan sedan on the right shoulder of northbound Highway 680 south of Scott Creek Road. Officers found that the Nissan had struck two construction workers and a white Ford F-350 pickup truck, CHP officials said.
The two workers, both Vacaville residents, had been standing near the back of the truck and were removing a construction sign just before the collision, according to the CHP.
Sanchez left the roadway, veered onto the right shoulder and smashed into the two men and the truck, CHP officials said. One of the workers, who was 34 years old, died at the scene. His name was not yet being released by the Santa Clara County medical examiner's office.
The other worker, a 26-year-old man, suffered minor injuries and was taken to Regional Medical Center of San Jose, according to the CHP.
Sanchez suffered major injuries and was also taken to the hospital prior to his arrest, CHP officials said.
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UPDATE 12:30 p.m.
(Editor's Note: The following updated information was received from the Milpitas Fire Department by Patch and is being reprinted here.)
SUBJECT: Fatal Motor Vehicle Accident
DATE: 11/1/13
TIME: 2:44 a.m.
LOCATION: I-680 N of Jacklin Road
TO BE RELEASED:
At 2:44 a.m. the Milpitas Fire Department responded to a report of a multiple vehicle accident with injuries in the vicinity of northbound I-680 north of Jacklin Road. Preliminary dispatch reports indicated that a vehicle traveling northbound on I-680 left the freeway at a high rate of speed and struck a worker performing maintenance on the shoulder of the freeway and then collided with the maintenance vehicle and caught fire.
The first arriving Milpitas Engine Company reported one vehicle with heavy damage on fire. The driver was pinned in the vehicle and one additional patient was lying on the shoulder of the freeway with severe injuries.
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Firefighters extinguished the fire and immediately initiated extrication efforts on the patient pinned in the vehicle. Simultaneously, patient care was given to the patient on the shoulder of the freeway. Milpitas firefighters extricated the driver who was treated by paramedics prior to being transported to a local hospital with serious injuries. The second patient was treated by Milpitas Fire Department Paramedics but, due to the severity of his injuries he was pronounced deceased on scene.
Responding units to this incident were the Milpitas Fire Battalion Chief, Milpitas Engine 2, Milpitas Engine 3, Milpitas Truck 4 and Urban Search and Rescue, two mutual aid fire engines from the City of Fremont and two Santa Clara County EMS Paramedic Units.
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A suspected drunk driver struck and killed a construction worker alongside Interstate Highway 680 in Milpitas early Friday morning, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The collision was reported at about 2:40 a.m. on northbound Highway 680 just south of the Scott Creek Road off-ramp, CHP officials said.
The worker was standing outside a construction site on the right hand shoulder of the highway when a motorist fatally struck him. The vehicle also crashed into the rear of a pickup truck and hit a second construction worker, according to the CHP.
CHP Officer Ron Simmons said the crash is being investigated as a DUI. The driver was taken to a hospital with serious injuries while the second construction worker was taken to Regional Medical Center of San Jose in stable condition, according to the CHP.
The name of the worker who was killed is not immediately being released.
Simmons said the crash initially prompted the closure of multiple lanes of northbound Highway 680.
The two left lanes have since reopened, but the far right lane was expected to be closed until at least 8 a.m., he said.
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