The accident occurred at 6:05 p.m. (local time) near Restauradores Square after a safety cable snapped, causing the vehicle to lose control and accelerate down the slope connecting the upper part of the city with the Baixa Pombalina district. The accident also affected a second cable car that was stopped at the beginning of the Gloria road with some passengers inside, and which was hit by the first.
Santa Clara County Sheriff's Deputies on Wednesday arrested a 23-year-old man on assault charges after a vicious slashing attack on a Valley Transit Authority bus driver in South San Jose. Deputies reported that just after 7 a.m. on Aug. 20 at Blossom Hill Road and Hillview Avenue in San Jose, a VTA bus driver reported that he had been attacked after asking a rider to stop repeatedly pulling the stop-request cord.