SAN JOSE >> The number of traffic fatalities in the city this year rose to six Monday after police said that two drivers in separate crashes last month had succumbed to their injuries.

The Santa Clara County Coroner’s Office informed San Jose police of the two deaths March 3, authorities said. The two incidents mark the fifth and sixth fatal collisions and traffic deaths of 2025 in San Jose.

Around 1:39 a.m. on Feb. 15, SJPD responded to a report of a single-vehicle collision in the vicinity of Story Road and Kollmar Drive, authorities said in a press release. Officers found that an adult male driver had been driving a 2010 Toyota sedan eastbound on Story Road when he left the road and struck a tree.

The driver was taken to a hospital with life-threatening injuries and initially stabilized, officers said. He died of his injuries on Feb. 26.

Anyone with further information on the incident should contact Detective O’Brien #3527 at 3527@sanjoseca.gov.

Around 1:35 p.m. on Feb. 18, officers reported to a multiple-vehicle collision near Almaden Expressway and Bryan Avenue, according to a press release from SJPD.

An investigation found that an adult male driver was driving a 2012 white Infiniti sedan southbound on Almaden Expressway at a high rate of speed and lost control of the car, authorities said. The driver first sideswiped a 2015 blue Ford coupe driven by an adult man before crossing the median into oncoming traffic and colliding head-on with a 2024 grey Hyundai sedan driven by a solo female driver.

The driver of the Hyundai had non-life threatening injuries, authorities said. The Infiniti driver was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries and stabilized, but he died of his injuries March 2.

Anyone with further information on this incident is asked to contact Detective Aldinger #4183 at 4183@sanjoseca.gov.

The identities of the victims will be released by the Santa Clara County Coroner’s Office once their next of kin has been contacted.