{"id":130850,"date":"2026-01-12T23:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T23:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/130850\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T23:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T23:56:07","slug":"wrong-way-crash-kills-man-on-55-freeway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/130850\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong-Way Crash Kills Man On 55 Freeway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORANGE COUNTY, CA \u2014 A man driving a white SUV southbound in northbound lanes of the Costa Mesa (55) Freeway died after crashing into at least one vehicle, authorities said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was first reported at 10:35 p.m. Sunday in the No. 1 lane of the northbound 55 near Bison Avenue. The vehicle came to rest under the Corona del Mar (73) Freeway overpass, according to the California Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics were working to save the driver&#8217;s life, the CHP stated at 11:22 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>A SigAlert was issued at 11:22 p.m., shutting down northbound lanes through the area. The far right lane was opened at 12:16 a.m. Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORANGE COUNTY, CA \u2014 A man driving a white SUV southbound in northbound lanes of the Costa Mesa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164],"class_list":["post-130850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130850","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=130850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}