{"id":148153,"date":"2026-01-24T19:59:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T19:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/148153\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T19:59:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T19:59:22","slug":"fatal-crash-closes-road-near-petaluma-for-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/148153\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal crash closes road near Petaluma for hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man in his 60\u2019s was killed in a crash near Petaluma Friday morning, shutting down a stretch of roadway for hours, according to California Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>The crash was reported around 5:50 a.m. on Adobe Road between Frates and Stage Gulch roads, also known as state Highway 116, according to CHP Officer David deRutte.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe that an eastbound gray Honda CR-V on Adobe Road crossed over the double lines for unknown reasons. It sideswiped a westbound white Chevrolet Silverado and then collided head-on with a black Toyota Camry, which was also traveling west.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Honda CR-V sustained fatal injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene, deRutte said. His identity was not yet released by authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Camry sustained major but non-life-threatening injuries and was transported to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital. The driver of the Silverado sustained minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Lanes were closed on Adobe Road and traffic was blocked in both directions. By 10:16 a.m., all lanes were reopened, according to a CHP post on X.<\/p>\n<p>CHP urged anyone with information about the collision to contact the Santa Rosa CHP office at (707) 806-5600.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man in his 60\u2019s was killed in a crash near Petaluma Friday morning, shutting down a stretch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,859,8,8296,73565,22667],"class_list":{"0":"post-148153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-highway-patrol","11":"tag-california-news","12":"tag-fatal-crash","13":"tag-highway-116","14":"tag-petaluma"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148153","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=148153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}