A 30-year-old San Jose man died last week after succumbing to injuries sustained when his motorcycle collided with a Google commuter bus on Shoreline Boulevard near the tech campus in Mountain View.
The Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner Office identified the victim of the crash as Joseph Lopez. No one else was injured in the incident, according to the Mountain View Police Department.
Witnesses reported the incident at approximately 5:20 p.m. Dec. 27, according to the police department. Specific details about what transpired are forthcoming, but Lopez’s motorcycle and a bus contracted by Google collided at the intersection of Shoreline and Plymouth Street. Officers arriving at the scene discovered Lopez unresponsive, and emergency personnel pronounced him deceased a short time later. He died from multiple blunt-force trauma, according to the Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office.
The accident disrupted traffic in the area until approximately 1 a.m. Dec. 28, when the roads reopened.
The cause of the crash is under investigation, according to the police department.
