San Jose, CA, November 5 – One person suffered minor injuries after a motorcycle and a car collided on Highway 85 near Stevens Creek Boulevard on Friday afternoon, according to the California Highway Patrol. The agency reported the crash occurred around 3:15 p.m. The injured person was taken to a hospital for treatment, and the circumstances that led to the collision have not yet been determined, the CHP said.
San Jose Motorcycle Crash on Highway 85 Injures One
The collision involved a motorcycle and a passenger car, the California Highway Patrol said in its report on the crash. Investigators have not said which vehicle was traveling in which direction or how the collision occurred. The CHP’s report did not include additional details about the vehicles or their drivers.
One person involved in the crash suffered minor injuries and was taken to a hospital for treatment, according to the CHP report. No other injuries were reported. The report did not specify which of the two vehicles’ occupants was injured. The case remains under review by the California Highway Patrol, which has not released further updates.
The cause of the crash, including what led the vehicles to collide, has not been released by investigators. It is not known whether speed, impairment or any other factor played a role, as the CHP has not made a determination public. Further information, including the identities of those involved, had not been disclosed as of Friday afternoon.
Lane splitting, and what the Vehicle Code actually says
Vehicle Code section 21658.1 defines lane splitting and authorizes the California Highway Patrol to develop educational guidelines for it. What matters after a crash is the distinction the section draws: lane splitting is not prohibited in California, and not prohibited is not the same thing as legal.
The practical effect is that a rider who was lane splitting has not broken a rule by doing so, and an insurer that treats lane splitting as automatic fault is asserting something the statute does not say. Fault still turns on how each party behaved, the same as in any other collision.
The deadline that applies to a claim like this one
Code of Civil Procedure section 335.1 gives two years for an action for injury to, or for the death of, an individual caused by the wrongful act or neglect of another. The same two years covers an injury claim and a death claim; there is no separate, shorter period because someone died.
Talking to someone about it
Culver Legal represents people injured in collisions across California. A conversation about what happened costs nothing, and we work on a contingency fee, which means there is no fee unless we win. If we do not win, we do not pass the case costs on to you either.
Nothing on this page is legal advice about any particular case, and the facts of a reported collision often change as the investigation continues.
