{"id":130806,"date":"2026-01-12T23:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T23:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/130806\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T23:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T23:23:07","slug":"man-killed-in-multi-vehicle-pileup-on-highway-99-in-fresno-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/130806\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed in multi-vehicle pileup on Highway 99 in Fresno identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The man who was killed in a multi-vehicle pileup on Highway 99 in Fresno has been identified as 61-year-old Gustavo Villanueva Vargas of Fresno.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: The video above is from a previous broadcast and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It happened on southbound Highway 99 between North and Cedar avenues just after 9 am.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A total of 17 vehicles, including one big rig truck, were involved in the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">RELATED: <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc30.com\/post\/first-responders-efforts-deadly-multi-vehicle-pileup-highway-99-fresno\/18391080\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">First responders&#8217; efforts in deadly multi-vehicle pileup on Highway 99 in Fresno<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Multiple agencies responded to the scene, including the CHP, Fresno Fire Department and other medical personnel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Initial reports indicate that two vehicles slowed down, while several vehicles behind them were traveling faster, leading to crashes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Many of the surviving victims in this case, which included children between the ages of one and four years old, were transported by a FAX bus, adding another layer of collaboration to this life-saving effort.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">All lanes on the highway have since been reopened.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The man who was killed in a multi-vehicle pileup on Highway 99 in Fresno&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130807,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[67178,112,114,67177,113,67175,1825,67176,2393,849,294],"class_list":{"0":"post-130806","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-67178","9":"tag-fresno","10":"tag-fresno-headlines","11":"tag-fresno-highway-99","12":"tag-fresno-news","13":"tag-fresno-traffic","14":"tag-highway-99","15":"tag-highway-99-crash-fresno","16":"tag-man-killed","17":"tag-multi-vehicle-crash","18":"tag-timely"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130806","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=130806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}