{"id":157322,"date":"2026-01-31T00:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T00:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/157322\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T00:54:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T00:54:07","slug":"second-victim-in-deadly-highway-99-pileup-in-fresno-dies-from-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/157322\/","title":{"rendered":"Second victim in deadly Highway 99 pileup in Fresno dies from injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A woman who was hospitalized from the tragic 17-vehicle pile-up on Highway 99 in Fresno has died from her injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The California Highway Patrol confirms that the woman was in the car of the first victim, 61-year-old Gustavo Villanueva Vargas of Fresno.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/gofund.me\/c02bc200b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">A verified GoFundMe<\/a> for the family identifies the woman as their grandmother, Gloria Rodriguez, and says the family was on their way to church.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Vargas was killed when he got out of the car during the pile-up.<\/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\/least-15-vehicles-crash-closing-section-southbound-highway-99-chp-investigating\/18387637\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">61-year-old man killed in multi-vehicle pileup on southbound HWY 99, CHP investigating<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It all happened on January 11 <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/abc30.com\/post\/exclusive-dashcam-footage-captures-moment-deadly-highway-99-pileup-fresno\/18419540\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">when a sudden, thick patch of fog overtook<\/a> the southbound lanes of the highway, temporarily blinding some drivers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The GoFundMe states Rodriguez died three days after the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It says Vargas&#8217; wife remains hospitalized after falling 40-feet during the incident and a cousin is also recovering in the hospital.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A woman who was hospitalized from the tragic 17-vehicle pile-up on Highway 99 in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157323,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76915,112,114,113,76914,294],"class_list":{"0":"post-157322","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-76915","9":"tag-fresno","10":"tag-fresno-headlines","11":"tag-fresno-news","12":"tag-second-victim-in-deadly-highway-99-pileup-in-fresno-dies-from-injuries","13":"tag-timely"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157322","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=157322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157322\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}