San Jose, CA, October 22 – A motorcycle and a car collided in San Jose on Wednesday evening, and the California Highway Patrol said one person suffered injuries in the crash. CHP said the injured person was taken to a hospital for treatment. The agency has not said what caused the motorcycle and car to collide, and few other details about the crash were immediately available.
San Jose Motorcycle Accident on Highway 101 Near Highway 87 Injures One
According to the California Highway Patrol, the collision happened around 7:44 p.m. Wednesday on Highway 101 near Highway 87 in San Jose. The crash involved a motorcycle and a car. CHP has not released further details about the vehicles or the people who were riding in them, including the motorcyclist and the driver of the car.
The person hurt in the collision suffered what CHP described as minor injuries. That person was taken to a local hospital for treatment following the crash. The report does not specify whether the person injured was riding the motorcycle or driving the car, and no other detail about their condition has been released.
CHP has not said whether either driver was cited in connection with the crash. What caused the motorcycle and car to collide has not been confirmed, and the agency has not released that information publicly. No additional details about the people involved, including their identities, ages or further specifics about their injuries, have been released at this time.
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.
