SAN JOSE — The Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office has identified two men killed in separate collisions last month on San Jose roadways.
Angel Joel Balderas, 20, of San Jose, died July 22 after crashing his black Honda sedan into a light pole in East San Jose, according to the medical examiner and San Jose police.
Balderas was driving westbound on Aborn Road near Brigadoon Way at about 11:45 p.m. when his car veered off the roadway and struck the pole. He was declared dead at the scene, according to police.
Several days later, James Wesley Koenig III, a 31-year-old transient man, was killed when his motorcycle collided with another vehicle in San Jose’s Willow Glen neighborhood, according to the medical examiner and police.
San Jose police responded to the fatal collision shortly after 8 a.m. on July 28 at the intersection of Curtner Avenue and Briarwood Drive. Koenig III was taken to a nearby hospital, where he died from his injuries.
As of August 1, 42 people have died on San Jose roadways in 2022. The nation’s tenth-largest city is on pace to surpass last year’s traffic death total of 60, which was a 25-year peak also reached in 2015 and 2019.
Source: www.mercurynews.com