{"id":162534,"date":"2026-02-03T21:59:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T21:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/162534\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T21:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T21:59:23","slug":"72-year-old-man-killed-in-single-car-crash-in-fresno-county-identified-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/162534\/","title":{"rendered":"72-year-old man killed in single-car crash in Fresno County identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man who was killed in a single-car crash in Fresno County on Monday has been identified as 72-year-old Michael Williams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: The video above is from a previous broadcast and will be updated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It happened just before 1:30 pm on Auberry Road and Corlew Mountain Road near Prather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The California Highway Patrol says Williams was traveling northbound on Auberry Road when, for reasons still under investigation, he lost control of his pickup truck.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Williams went off the roadway, hitting large rocks along the shoulder before his vehicle eventually overturned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers say he was wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash, but sustained critical injuries and died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Alcohol is suspected to be a factor in the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man who was killed in a single-car crash in Fresno County on Monday has been identified as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[859,78820,112,622,114,113,78819],"class_list":{"0":"post-162534","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-corlew-mountain-road","10":"tag-fresno","11":"tag-fresno-county","12":"tag-fresno-headlines","13":"tag-fresno-news","14":"tag-michael-williams"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162534","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=162534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}