{"id":158775,"date":"2026-02-01T04:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T04:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/158775\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T04:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T04:41:08","slug":"highway-99-reopens-after-59-vehicle-pileup-in-the-central-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/158775\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway 99 reopens after 59-vehicle pileup in the Central Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A three-mile stretch of Highway 99 was closed for more than five hours Saturday after dense fog led to a massive vehicle pileup in Tulare County, about 40 miles north of Bakersfield. <\/p>\n

The California Highway Patrol said 59 vehicles were involved in the crash that occurred around 8 a.m. The highway<\/a> reopened midafternoon. <\/p>\n

Several people sustained mild to moderate injuries and some were taken to a local hospital, according to CHP Visalia<\/a>. CHP officers received multiple calls starting at 8:17 a.m. reporting collisions in both the north and southbound lanes of the roadway, the agency reported. <\/p>\n

\u201cDuring dense fog avoid travel and do not rely on automatic headlights,\u201d the County Of Tulare wrote on Facebook<\/a> following the incident. <\/p>\n

The Tulare County Fire Department said the highway was closed<\/a> in both directions from Avenue 24 to the Kern County line. <\/p>\n

The National Weather Service issued a fog advisory<\/a> for the San Joaquin Valley on Saturday, including stretches of Highway 99. Eastern parts of the U.S. are experiencing severe winter storms. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A three-mile stretch of Highway 99 was closed for more than five hours Saturday after dense fog led…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2640,7,9,8,512,22574,8197,39366,1575,77392,77394,482,77393,21003,23997,77395,77391,8412],"class_list":["post-158775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-a-m","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-central-valley","tag-chp-officer","tag-collision","tag-dense-fog","tag-highway","tag-hour-saturday","tag-midafternoon","tag-north","tag-pileup","tag-roadway","tag-several-people","tag-southbound-lane","tag-three-mile-stretch","tag-tulare-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158775","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=158775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}