{"id":162199,"date":"2026-02-03T17:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/162199\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T17:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:44:08","slug":"fatal-pedestrian-crash-shuts-down-5-freeway-in-anaheim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/162199\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal pedestrian crash shuts down 5 Freeway in Anaheim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/ouk1rct3r737xlev.jpg\" alt=\"Pedestrian struck, killed in Anaheim\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">ANAHEIM, Calif. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/organization\/chp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">California Highway Patrol <\/a>is investigating a Tuesday morning collision that left one person dead after they were struck by a vehicle on the 5 Freeway in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/orange-county\/anaheim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Anaheim.<\/a><\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTTV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The incident happened at around 12:45 a.m. on the northbound side of the freeway near Gene Autry Way, according to the CHP.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">An investigation revealed a vehicle struck a pedestrian who was standing in the middle lanes of traffic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">Emergency responders pronounced the victim dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">\u00a0The collision forced a total closure of the northbound lanes for four hours while investigators processed the scene.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTTV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-2899190a=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">The identity of the victim\u2014including their name, age, and gender\u2014has not been released.<\/p>\n<p data-v-2899190a=\"\">It remains unclear why the pedestrian was on the freeway or if the driver of the vehicle will face any charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This report is based on information from the California Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/orange-county\/anaheim\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-2899190a=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anaheim<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ANAHEIM, Calif. &#8211; California Highway Patrol is investigating a Tuesday morning collision that left one person dead after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,1184,2042,100,611,1181],"class_list":["post-162199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-ca","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162199","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=162199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}