SAN JOSE — A driver was arrested on suspicion of drunk driving and manslaughter over the weekend after she reportedly crashed into the second-story of an East San Jose home, killing her passenger, police said.
Miraculously, no one living inside the home was injured when the Subaru sedan barreled into the house in the early hours of Saturday morning.
The crash was reported at 2:26 a.m. and San Jose police said an initial investigation determined that a woman was driving a red 2022 Subaru west on McKee Road “at a high rate of speed” when she lost control of the car near Francis Drive.
That caused the vehicle to go over the center median and cut across all of the oncoming lanes and hit the southern curb of McKee Road. The car then broke through a fence and went into a back yard where it hit a two-story house on Sorgepark Place, authorities said. Soon after, the residents inside were evacuated.
The passenger in the car, described only as a 23-year-old man on Monday, died at the scene. His name was not released pending his formal identification and notification of his next of kin by the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office.
The driver suffered what police described as injuries that were not life threatening, and she was arrested on suspicion of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated. Her name was not released by police in a Monday news release detailing the fatal collision.
Saturday’s crash marked San Jose’s 23rd traffic death of the year investigated by San Jose police.
Anyone with information for investigators can contact the SJPD traffic investigations unit at 408-277-4654 or email Detective Tori DelliCarpini at 4103@sanjoseca.gov. Tips can also be left with Silicon Valley Crime Stoppers at 408-947-7867 or at siliconvalleycrimestoppers.org.