{"id":161977,"date":"2026-02-03T14:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T14:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/161977\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T14:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T14:55:07","slug":"driver-fatally-strikes-pedestrian-standing-on-santa-ana-freeway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/161977\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver Fatally Strikes Pedestrian Standing on Santa Ana Freeway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California Highway Patrol officers Tuesday are investigating a fatal crash that killed one person on the Santa Ana (5) Freeway in Anaheim.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded at 12:44 a.m. Tuesday to the northbound freeway and Gene Autry Way where a vehicle struck a pedestrian who was standing in the middle lanes of traffic, a CHP spokeswoman told City News Service.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, whose name, age and gender were not immediately known, was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The collision closed the northbound freeway until 4:45 a.m. and the cause of the collision is under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California Highway Patrol officers Tuesday are investigating a fatal crash that killed one person on the Santa Ana&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":161978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,410,5154,984,21777,30755,9941],"class_list":["post-161977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-fatally","tag-freeway","tag-pedestrian","tag-santa","tag-standing","tag-struck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161977","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=161977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}