GILROY
– A motorcyclist from West Hollywood broke his femur when he
crashed into a guardrail on southbound U.S. Highway 101 Saturday
morning near San Juan Bautista, according to the California Highway
Patrol.
GILROY – A motorcyclist from West Hollywood broke his femur when he crashed into a guardrail on southbound U.S. Highway 101 Saturday morning near San Juan Bautista, according to the California Highway Patrol.
That same morning, a two-vehicle collision on 101 near Morgan Hill left five teen-age boys from Salinas with minor injuries.
Meanwhile, a Gilroy man was hurt in an accident in Hollister on Friday, and a four-car collision by a strawberry stand on Masten Avenue, between 101 and Monterey Road, left one person slightly injured on Sunday.
Motorcyclist Brian Alan VanVranken was in fair condition Monday at San Jose Medical Center.
VanVranken was thrown from his 2004 Harley-Davidson Sportster, landing in the center median after he hit the rail, the CHP reported. The crash happened at about 9 a.m., north of the exit for state Highway 156.
At 9:50 a.m., nine people – at least six of them teen-age males from Salinas – were in a 1999 Chevrolet and an 1997 Acura that collided on northbound 101 north of Middle Avenue. The Chevrolet rolled over once and landed on its wheels, according to the CHP. All five teens inside the Chevrolet had cuts and scrapes. No one in the Acura was injured.
The not wearing a seat belt, a 17-year-old whose name was not released, was ejected from the vehicle and suffered cuts and scrapes, according to the CHP. An air ambulance took him to San Jose Medical Center. Rescue workers took driver Hugo Sanchez-Alejandre, 18, and a 17-year-old boy to Saint Louise Regional Hospital in Gilroy. Rescue workers treated two other 18-year-olds, Odilon Santoyo and Osualdo Amexcua, at the scene.
On Friday evening in Hollister, 22-year-old Chris Reinholm of Gilroy was one of four people hospitalized after a Mazda sedan and a Chevrolet Suburban sport-utility vehicle collided on Union Road at Riverside Road.
Reinholm, driving the Mazda, had bruises on his forehead and scrapes on his chest from the seat belt and steering wheel, according to the CHP. An air ambulance flew him to San Jose Medical Center. He has since been discharged.
The other three injured people were passengers in Reinholm’s car: An 18-year-old Hollister woman, a 16-year-old Watsonville girl and a 15-year-old Hollister boy. Air ambulances flew them all to trauma centers in San Jose.
