{"id":120453,"date":"2026-01-05T05:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T05:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/120453\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T05:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T05:41:08","slug":"one-dead-two-injured-after-wrong-way-driver-collides-with-vehicles-on-highway-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/120453\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead, two injured after wrong-way driver collides with vehicles on Highway 99"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A 58-year-old man died Sunday afternoon after driving the wrong way on Highway 99 and colliding head-on with two vehicles, according to the California Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">CHP says it began receiving calls around 2 p.m. about a wrong-way driver heading north in the southbound lane of Highway 99 near Olive Avenue. Moments later, the agency started receiving calls about a crash south of Clinton Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Investigators say the man was driving a Ford Ranger in the far-left lane when he struck a Ford Bronco driven by a 24-year-old woman and a Chevrolet Equinox, driven by a 63-year-old woman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">All three vehicles blocked the two far left lanes of the highway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The wrong-way driver was transported to Community Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The other two drivers were also taken to the hospital with injuries and are expected to live.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">CHP said it is unknown whether drugs or alcohol were factors in the crash. The crash investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A 58-year-old man died Sunday afternoon after driving the wrong way on Highway 99&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[63487,63486,852,8296,63485,63484,112,114,113,63483,1825,294,987,19215],"class_list":["post-120453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-63487","tag-chevrolet-equinox","tag-chp","tag-fatal-crash","tag-ford-bronco","tag-ford-ranger","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-head-on-collision","tag-highway-99","tag-timely","tag-traffic-accident","tag-wrong-way-driver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120453","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=120453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}