{"id":167293,"date":"2026-02-06T22:09:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T22:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/167293\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T22:09:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T22:09:35","slug":"high-school-student-hit-and-killed-on-highway-99-in-northwest-fresno-identified-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/167293\/","title":{"rendered":"High school student hit and killed on Highway 99 in northwest Fresno identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The teenager who was hit and killed by a vehicle in northwest Fresno has been identified as 16-year-old Maxwell Thompson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officials say Thompson was a student at Justin Garza High School.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The California Highway Patrol was called out to Highway 99 near Herndon Avenue just before 9 am Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers say Thompson ran in front of a pickup truck in the far right lane as he attempted to cross the northbound traffic to get to the center divider.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The driver of the truck was unable to avoid him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Thompson was declared dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The driver of the pickup truck stayed on scene and cooperated with authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers say alcohol or drugs are not factors in the incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The teenager who was hit and killed by a vehicle in northwest Fresno has been identified as 16-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167294,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[859,112,114,113,1825,80448,80520,27982,31406],"class_list":{"0":"post-167293","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-fresno","10":"tag-fresno-headlines","11":"tag-fresno-news","12":"tag-highway-99","13":"tag-justin-garza-high-school","14":"tag-maxwell-thompson","15":"tag-northbound-traffic","16":"tag-pickup-truck"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167293","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=167293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}