A teal Nissan pickup truck overturned Monday afternoon after it
crashed into a Grand Cherokee, the driver of which ran a stop sign,
police said.
A teal Nissan pickup truck overturned Monday afternoon after it crashed into a Grand Cherokee, the driver of which ran a stop sign, police said.
The accident occurred at 2:30 p.m. when Olga Carpenter was driving west about 25 miles per hour on Highland approaching Santa Teresa Boulevard. Jose Perez was traveling south in his pickup truck on Santa Teresa Boulevard.
Carpenter said she didn’t see the stop sign until she was parallel to it. She said the trees overhanging the side of the road obscured it.
She ran the stop sign and Perez’s pickup struck her passenger door, sending both vehicles spinning.
The truck tipped onto the driver’s side and slid. Perez said he’d had his arm out the window as he drove, and it caught and twisted. His hand was heavily bandaged, and he thought it was broken.
Carpenter, who said she was from Sacramento and was traveling to Gilroy to visit her mother, was fine while her female passenger was taken to Saint Louise Regional Hospital with minor bruising, according to California Highway Patrol officer T. Ray.
Perez’s dog Firulais, a seven-month-old collie mix, was riding alongside him in the truck and was shaken and panting, but fine.
