{"id":10400,"date":"2025-10-17T22:15:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T22:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/10400\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T22:15:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T22:15:21","slug":"woman-killed-after-vehicle-plunges-side-of-hwy-168-in-fresno-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/10400\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman killed after vehicle plunges side of Hwy. 168 in Fresno County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (FOX26)  \u2014 A woman died on Friday when her vehicle veered off Highway 168 in Fresno County, plummeting 150 feet down a ravine. <\/p>\n<p>The incident was reported by a witness at 12:22 p.m. on Highway 168 near Auberry Road.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/61-year-old-woman-in-ford-explorer-killed-in-violent-head-on-crash-with-f-350-road-400-madera-california-highway-patrol-river-road-ems-officers-jaws-of-life#\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/61-year-old-woman-in-ford-explorer-killed-in-violent-head-on-crash-with-f-350-road-400-madera-california-highway-patrol-river-road-ems-officers-jaws-of-life#\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">61-year-old woman in Ford Explorer killed in violent head-on crash with F-350<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Officials say the solo vehicle was traveling westbound at high speed, drifted off the road without braking, struck a guardrail, and went airborne. <\/p>\n<p>Firefighters from Cal Fire and Fresno County Fire responded to the scene, roping down the hill to reach the crash site. <\/p>\n<p>They discovered a single female driver in her forties, who was pinned inside the vehicle. <\/p>\n<p>She was declared dead at the scene before removing her from the wreckage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A woman died on Friday when her vehicle veered off Highway 168 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6980,9880,112,622,114,113,9877,9881,987,9878,9879],"class_list":{"0":"post-10400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-cal-fire","9":"tag-ford-explorer","10":"tag-fresno","11":"tag-fresno-county","12":"tag-fresno-headlines","13":"tag-fresno-news","14":"tag-highway-168","15":"tag-road-safety","16":"tag-traffic-accident","17":"tag-vehicle-crash","18":"tag-woman-killed"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}