{"id":165964,"date":"2026-02-06T00:58:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T00:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/165964\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T00:58:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T00:58:21","slug":"second-victim-in-deadly-hwy-99-pileup-in-fresno-dies-from-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/165964\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Victim in Deadly HWY 99 Pileup in Fresno Dies from Injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) \u2014\u00a0A 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=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">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=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \"><a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" href=\"https:\/\/gofund.me\/c02bc200b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\">A verified GoFundMe<\/a>\u00a0for the family identifies the woman as their grandmother, Gloria Rodriguez, and says the family was on their way to church.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Vargas was killed when he got out of the car during the pile-up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It all happened on January 11\u00a0<a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" href=\"https:\/\/abc30.com\/post\/exclusive-dashcam-footage-captures-moment-deadly-highway-99-pileup-fresno\/18419540\/\" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">when a sudden, thick patch of fog overtook<\/a>\u00a0the southbound lanes of the highway, temporarily blinding some drivers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The GoFundMe states Rodriguez died three days after the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It says Vargas\u2019 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":"FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) \u2014\u00a0A woman who was hospitalized from the tragic 17-vehicle pile-up on Highway 99 in Fresno&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-165964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165964","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=165964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}