{"id":157548,"date":"2026-01-31T03:34:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T03:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/157548\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T03:34:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T03:34:11","slug":"second-victim-in-deadly-highway-99-pileup-in-fresno-dies-from-injuries-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/157548\/","title":{"rendered":"Second victim in deadly Highway 99 pileup in Fresno dies from injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gofund.me\/c02bc200b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:A verified GoFundMe;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Vargas was killed when he got out of the car during the pile-up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/61-old-man-killed-multi-031240840.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:61-year-old man killed in multi-vehicle pileup on southbound HWY 99, CHP investigating;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" 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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It all happened on January 11 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/exclusive-dashcam-footage-captures-moment-072510535.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:when a sudden, thick patch of fog overtook;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" 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=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The GoFundMe states Rodriguez died three days after the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman who was hospitalized from the tragic 17-vehicle pile-up on Highway 99 in Fresno has died from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[859,112,114,113,76981,69906,1825],"class_list":{"0":"post-157548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-california-highway-patrol","9":"tag-fresno","10":"tag-fresno-headlines","11":"tag-fresno-news","12":"tag-gloria-rodriguez","13":"tag-gustavo-villanueva-vargas","14":"tag-highway-99"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157548","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=157548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}