One of three San Jose rollover crash victims identified

One of three people killed in a rollover crash in San Jose has been identified.

San Francisco resident Victoria Louise Knox, 36, was traveling northbound on Highway 101 along with six other people at 11:10 p.m. Saturday when the driver veered left and smashed into the highway’s metal and wooden guardrail.

Knox and two other passengers in the Chevrolet Tahoe were pronounced dead at the scene south of Bernal Avenue, while the four other passengers — including the driver — were transported to a local hospital for treatment.

The names of the two other victims will be released pending their formal identification and notification of next of kin by the coroner’s office. An update on the conditions of the four other passengers was not immediately available.

A preliminary investigation by the California Highway Patrol found that drugs and alcohol do not appear to be a factor in the crash. It’s unclear why the driver swerved in the first place, CHP said.

The crash shut down all northbound lanes of the highway for several hours, reopening around 4:25 a.m. Sunday.