{"id":107869,"date":"2025-12-24T16:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T16:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/107869\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T16:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T16:59:08","slug":"fresno-county-hit-and-run-suspect-surrenders-to-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/107869\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno County Hit-and-Run Suspect Surrenders to Authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A driver suspected of fleeing a <a href=\"https:\/\/gvwire.com\/2025\/12\/23\/fresno-county-crash-under-investigation-after-driver-flees\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">hit-and-run crash in western Fresno County<\/a> turned himself in after authorities sought the public\u2019s help through social media, the California Highway Patrol said.<\/p>\n<p>The head-on crash occurred Tuesday at the intersection of Fowler and Davis avenues near Laton, causing major damage and moderate injuries.<\/p>\n<p>CHP said the driver fled the scene and alcohol was a suspected factor. Despite an extensive ground and air search, the suspect was not located at the time, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the driver contacted CHP and surrendered. He was arrested and booked into the Fresno County Jail.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the driver had been operating recklessly and ignored traffic laws before fleeing the scene, adding that leaving a crash and driving impaired carry serious consequences.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Connect with\u00a0\u00a0on social media. Got a tip? Send an\u00a0.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver suspected of fleeing a hit-and-run crash in western Fresno County turned himself in after authorities sought&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-107869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107869","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=107869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}