Last Updated on January 11, 2023 by CCAR Staff
LOS ANGELES — Authorities today released the names of the two women who were killed when a Greyhound bus traveling from Los Angeles to San Francisco overturned on a rainy highway in San Jose.
The Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s office identified them as Fely Olivera, 51, of San Francisco, and Maria De Jesus Ortiz Velasquez, 76, of Salinas.
The crash occurred about 6:40 a.m. Tuesday as the driver transitioned from northbound Highway 101 to northbound Highway 85, said California Highway Patrol Officer Chris Miceli of the Gilroy office. The driver and several other people were injured.
Miceli said the bus struck yellow impact barrels in a gore point and overturned on its right side. The barrels, filled with sand or water, are there to prevent a vehicle from slamming directly into the concrete freeway abutment, he said.
The driver denied that he had fallen asleep at the wheel, according to Miceli, who said the cause of the crash remained under investigation.
