A Morgan Hill man — believed to be under the influence of alcohol — who got on the freeway in San Jose traveling against traffic early Sunday drove more than 20 miles before colliding with a van, sending both drivers to the hospital with serious injuries.

According to the California Highway Patrol, they were alerted at 3:42 a.m. to a white 1995 Toyota Corolla going southbound in the northbound lanes of Interstate 680 at Berryessa Road. The car, driven by Edwin Rodriguez, 25, continued traveling in the wrong direction — northbound in the southbound lanes — as the freeway turned into Interstate 280.

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The CHP set up spike strips at Sand Hill Road to stop Rodriguez, but before he got there he hit a Ford van driven by a 50-year-old San Jose man. The crash was reported at 4:06 a.m. just south of Page Mill Road.

Both drivers were taken to Stanford Hospital with major injuries. All southbound lanes of Interstate 280 were closed for nearly three hours during the investigation, with traffic diverted at Page Mill Road.

The CHP asks any witnesses to this collision to contact Officer Anthony Wheeler at 650-369-6261.

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