Crime & Safety
Highway 237 Crash Kills 1
A 61-year-old man died Thursday from injuries suffered in a crash the previous day, authorities said.
SUNNYVALE, CA — A 61-year-old man died Thursday after a crash on state Highway 237 in Sunnyvale a day earlier, the California Highway Patrol said.
The crash was reported around 6:50 p.m. Wednesday on westbound Highway 237 east of Mathilda Avenue.
According to the CHP's preliminary investigation, a 62-year-old woman driving a 2007 Lexus ES 350 took her eyes off the road, then when she looked back she saw that traffic had come to a stop and hit her brakes, but crashed into the vehicle in front of her.
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The woman had the 61-year-old man as a passenger in the right rear of the Lexus and he was not wearing a seat belt at the time. He struck the back of the front passenger seat and was taken to Stanford Medical Center, according to the CHP.
At about 12:20 p.m. Thursday, the Santa Clara County medical examiner's office notified the CHP that the passenger had succumbed to his injuries at the hospital. His name is not yet being released.
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No other details about the crash were immediately available. Anyone with information about the case is asked to call the CHP's San Jose-area office at (408) 961-0900.
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