{"id":153682,"date":"2026-01-28T19:11:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T19:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/153682\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T19:11:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T19:11:24","slug":"fresno-man-named-after-he-was-killed-while-running-on-highway-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/153682\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno man named after he was killed while running on Highway 99"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourcentralvalley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">KSEE\/KGPE<\/a>) \u2013 The man who was hit and killed by a DUI driver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourcentralvalley.com\/news\/crime\/fatal-crash-fresno-highway99\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">after abandoning his car on a highway in Fresno<\/a> has been identified by the Fresno County Coroner\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The coroner identified the man as 37-year-old\u00a0Andrew Magana of Fresno.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourcentralvalley.com\/news\/crime\/fatal-crash-fresno-highway99\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\tDriver killed after abandoning car, running onto Highway 99 in Fresno\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to CHP, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourcentralvalley.com\/news\/crime\/fatal-crash-fresno-highway99\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">early Tuesday morning<\/a>, Magana had run away from his vehicle on the Highway 99 to Highway 180 transition road, leaving the driver\u2019s door open and the engine running. Responding officers removed the car from the road.<\/p>\n<p>Around 30 minutes later, at around 12:45 a.m., officers were told about a man who was struck on Highway 99 south of Belmont Avenue. CHP responded and found Magana had been hit; he was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>During their investigation, officers determined the 22-year-old driver who hit Magana was driving under the influence of alcohol. He was treated for the injuries sustained from the collision and subsequently arrested.<\/p>\n<p>The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tSuggest a Correction<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tClose Modal<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tSuggest a Correction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE\/KGPE) \u2013 The man who was hit and killed by a DUI driver after abandoning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-153682","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\/153682","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=153682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}