SAN JOSE (BCN) — An 18-year-old pregnant woman died hours after a two-car collision on southbound U.S. Highway 101 in San Jose early Wednesday morning, California Highway Patrol officials said. 
 
 The woman has been identified as Dulce Capetillo. A baby with the last name of Capetillo was delivered at the hospital and is in critical condition. 
 
 CHP officers responded at 1:50 a.m. to the collision on Highway 101 just south of Tully Road where a 1998 Honda Civic veered off the road and hit the rear end of a 2002 BMW 745i. 
 
 CHP officials initially said the collision occurred on the Tully Road off-ramp. 
 
 The three people involved in the collision reported minor injuries initially and were taken to hospitals. 
 
 But at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, doctors found the 18-year-old woman, who was presumed pregnant, had suffered traumatic injuries to her torso. She died at 5:30 a.m. in the hospital’s operating room. 
 
 The 20-year-old driver of the Honda, in which the 18-year-old woman was a passenger, was taken to Regional Medical Center of San Jose where he remains with moderate injuries, CHP Officer Ross Lee said. 
 
 Hung Tran, the 22-year-old San Jose resident driving the BMW, suffered moderate injuries. He was arrested on suspicion of DUI, Lee said. 
 
 CHP officials said the driver of the Honda, a San Jose resident, was not suspected of being under the influence of drugs or alcohol. 
 
 Tran’s BMW was parked on the right shoulder of the highway when the Honda struck it. Both cars sustained major damage. 
 
 The collision is under investigation. 
 
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 Photo: California Highway Patrol Image 1 of / 1 Caption Close Image 1 of 1 Dulce Araceli Capetillo Hernandez of San Jose died at Santa Clara Valley Regional Medical Center after initially complaining only of a leg injury, a CHP San Jose spokesman said. Dulce Araceli Capetillo Hernandez of San Jose died at Santa Clara Valley Regional Medical Center after initially complaining only of a leg injury, a CHP San Jose spokesman said. Photo: California Highway Patrol Pregnant woman hurt in San Jose crash dies; baby born at hospital 1 / 1 Back to Gallery 
 
 A pregnant 18-year-old woman died from injuries she received in a Highway 101 crash Wednesday morning in San Jose, but her baby was born. 
 
 Dulce Araceli Capetillo Hernandez of San Jose died at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center after initially complaining only of a leg injury, said Officer Ross Lee, a CHP San Jose spokesman. The hospital called police at about 5:30 a.m to report her death. A hospital official said the baby was born at the center. 
 
 Wednesday night, Joy Alexiou, a hospital spokeswoman, said the baby was in critical condition. 
 
 Hernandez was a passenger in a silver Honda Civic that swerved off of the road and hit a black BMW 745 that was parked on the right shoulder of southbound Highway 101 near Tully Road, Lee said. 
 
 The Honda driver, a 20-year-old man who was not the father of the baby, hit the BMW about 1:50 a.m. All three crash victims were taken to the hospital. 
 
 Hernandez’s injuries were considered minor on the scene — she had complained of leg pain, Lee said. 
 
 “When they got to the hospital they apparently found further injuries,” he said. “I can’t go into details on what those were.” 
 
 The driver of the Honda Civic was taken to a different hospital — Regional Medical Center — with moderate injuries. He was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol at the time of the crash, Lee said. 
 
 However, officials said the driver of the parked BMW was found to be under the influence. Hung Ton Duy Tran, 22, of San Jose was placed under arrest while he stayed at Regional Medical Center. 
 
 Officials were investigating the crash, including why the Honda swerved off of the road and what led Tran to pull over to the shoulder. 
 
 Jenna Lyons is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. Email: jlyons@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @JennaJourno ||||| SAN JOSE -- The baby was due in the next two months. The young couple -- each of them working jobs at Taco Bell -- had already held the shower, appreciating every little gift. 
 
 The expectant mother with the long black hair and dimpled smile shared her joy on Facebook with pictures of hearts, a lock and key and a message: "Mommy to be." 
 
 But after a tragic accident on Highway 101 early Wednesday morning, Dulce Capetillo never got the chance. She died at the hospital, but her baby boy was born. The infant was still listed in critical condition Thursday morning. 
 
 His name is Christopher, just as his mother had chosen. 
 
 Dulce Capetillo, an 18-year-old woman expecting her first child next month, died early Wednesday after a car crash on Highway 101. (Facebook) 
 
 "That's all she ever wanted, was to hold her baby in her arms," Ashley Moore, one of Dulce's best friends, said Thursday as the heartbreaking story spread through social media. 
 
 Capetillo's uncle, Rodrigo Hernandez, said Thursday that Christopher appears to be "doing good right now." 
 
 "The big concern is his brain," Hernandez said. "They want to make sure there is no brain trauma. But he looks big and healthy." 
 
 At Valley Medical Center, her fiance, Pedro Cortes, could barely speak on Wednesday. His eyes were red and puffy as he rushed down the hallway to the neonatal unit. He became a father on Wednesday, but lost his love -- the woman he planned a life with and shared playful messages with on his Facebook page. 
 
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 "My baby is a cutie I love you," Capetillo wrote. 
 
 "I love you," he wrote back in a post last spring, when she was three months pregnant. 
 
 "I love you more," she replied, tapping out another string of baby faces and wedding rings. 
 
 The couple who lived in East San Jose had humble jobs, taking orders, rolling Burrito Supremes, thanking customers for their business. On his Facebook page, though, Cortes called himself a "food champion at Taco Bell." They had recently moved in together. They were planning a future. 
 
 Courtesy Instagram â Pedro Cortes and girlfriend Dulce Capetillo, of San Jose, share a kiss in an Instragram post. Capetillo, 18, died early Aug. 17, 2016 following a crash on U.S. 101. Capetillo was pregnant at the time of the accident and doctors at Valley Medical Center were able to successfully deliver her son but were unable to save her life. The baby was last listed in critical condition. 
 
 "She was very, very lovely, very friendly, very polite," one of her supervisors, Jose Gonzalez, said Wednesday. "She always had a smile." 
 
 Capetillo, 18, had attended Independence High School. Her nickname on Facebook was "Dimplezz." 
 
 Capetillo had told her friend Moore that the baby was due in October, making her seven months pregnant and the baby perhaps two months premature. Both Capetillo and Cortes were hard workers, she said, working many hours at Taco Bell. They were living with Cortes's parents in East San Jose. 
 
 "She would say, 'My main challenge is to provide everything for my son," Moore said. "That was her goal -- her son, her son, her son." 
 
 "She wanted to become a wife. She wanted to have her own house," Moore, 18, said. "She was like, I really want my baby to hurry up and come because I just can't wait to hold him and feel him and see what he looks like. I told her I hope he looks like you." 
 
 What exactly led to the crash is still unclear. But Capetillo had just finished her night shift after midnight Wednesday at the Taco Bell in Morgan Hill, working in the cook line or as a cashier, when her brother, Carlos Capetillo-Hernandez, 20, picked her up. The siblings were heading to pick up Cortes at the Taco Bell in San Jose's Alum Rock neighborhood where he had finished his shift and was cleaning up, Gonzalez said. 
 
 Whether they met up with him or not is unclear. Cortes wasn't in the Honda Civic at 1:50 a.m. when Capetillo-Hernandez swerved for an unknown reason on northbound Highway 101 just south of Tully Road and hit a BMW parked on the shoulder, according to the California Highway Patrol, (which originally reported the accident occurred on southbound 101 but corrected that Thursday).The driver of the BMW appeared drunk, CHP officers say, and it wasn't clear whether he pulled over to sleep it off or because of a mechanical problem. 
 
 Either way, the Honda Civic smashed its front end, plowing into the parked car. 
 
 "We don't know if he lost control or was distracted for some reason," said CHP Officer Ross Lee. "Drugs and alcohol don't appear to be a factor on his behalf." 
 
 When the CHP arrived, Capetillo and her brother were alert. She complained of pains in her leg and was rushed to Valley Medical Center. Her brother Carlos Capetillo-Hernandez, 20, was taken to Regional Medical Center where he was treated for moderate internal injuries, according to Lee. 
 
 The driver of the BMW, 22-year-old Hung Tran of San Jose, was arrested on suspicion of being under the influence of alcohol and hospitalized for minor injuries, Lee said. 
 
 By Wednesday night, the shock of it all seemed too much for Cortes to comprehend. With his sister, Maria, at his side, he could say nothing more than his baby was OK 
 
 A photo of Dulce and Pedro sharing a kiss is one of the last posts on her Facebook page. 
 
 "My king my everything," she wrote, "love of my life." 
 
 Staff writer Mark Gomez contributed. Contact Julia Prodis Sulek at 408-278-3409. Contact Mark Gomez at 408-920-5869.
– An 18-year-old woman in San Jose will never get to meet her baby after she was killed in a car crash Wednesday two months before her child was due, the San Jose Mercury News reports. Doctors were able to save Dulce Capetillo's unborn baby, Christopher, and he remains in critical condition. "All she ever wanted was to hold her baby in her arms," Capetillo's friend says. Capetillo, who had recently moved in with her fiance Pedro Cortes, had picked out the name Christopher before crash. Cortes was overcome by grief Wednesday after losing the mother of his child. Capetillo's 20-year-old brother picked her up from work after midnight Wednesday. Shortly before 2am, he crashed into a BMW that was parked along the side of the highway. It's unclear why he crashed into the BMW, but police don't believe drugs or alcohol were involved. Emergency responders at the scene said Capetillo only had a minor leg injury, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. But doctors at the hospital found what KRON says were "traumatic injuries to her torso." She died in the operating room, leaving her new baby boy behind. (Mom of five dies 10 days after giving birth to triplets.)