SAN JOSE — A woman suspected of driving drunk caused a collision that killed a passenger in another car on Monterey Road on Wednesday afternoon, police said.

The crash was reported at 5:35 p.m. after a woman driving a silver 2007 Ford sedan heading west on Rancho Drive took a left turn onto southbound Monterey Road, according to the San Jose Police Department. That put her in the path of a northbound blue 2013 BMW coupe, and the two vehicles collided, causing the BMW to hit the center divider and cross into southbound lanes.

A passenger in the BMW was taken to the hospital with serious injuries and was later pronounced dead. He has been identified by the Santa Clara County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office as 39-year-old Jerome Michael Castro, a resident of Valley Springs in Calaveras Co

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