Woman struck, killed by car is San Jose’s 2nd pedestrian fatality since Friday night

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SAN JOSE, Calif. —

A 77-year-old woman crossing a street in San Jose Saturday morning was struck and killed by a car, police said. Her death was the city's second pedestrian fatality since Friday night.

The woman had been in the road in the area of Oakland and Rock Avenue when she was struck by a 1999 green Honda Civic at about 6:45 a.m., police said.

She was transported to Regional Medical Center of San Jose, where she was pronounced dead at 8:46 a.m.

About 12 hours earlier, a woman crossing Meridian Avenue was struck and killed by a car, police said.

The crash was reported at about 8:35 p.m. and involved a green late 1990s Acura Legend. The car was driving northbound on Meridian Avenue when it struck the woman, believed to be in her 40s, who was in the road just south of West San Carlos Street, police said.

Fire personnel pronounced the woman dead at 8:43 p.m.

The drivers in both crashes stayed at the scene and cooperated with investigators. Police said there was no indication that either driver was intoxicated but that the pedestrians' sobriety levels were unknown Saturday.

Both fatal crashes were under investigation and mark the city's first and second auto-pedestrian fatalities of 2012. Saturday morning's crash was the fourth traffic-related fatality of the year.