{"id":170881,"date":"2026-02-09T21:48:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/170881\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T21:48:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:48:46","slug":"body-found-in-a-canal-7-miles-away-from-off-road-vehicle-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/170881\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found in a canal 7 miles away from off-road vehicle crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The Merced County Sheriff\u2019s Department announced that they found a female body in the canal on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The body was reported to be located in the Delta Mendota Canal near Whitworth Road and Cottonwood Road.<\/p>\n<p>The body is described as that of an adult female.<\/p>\n<p>The recovery location appears to be seven miles away from a reported accident that occurred on January 28th.<\/p>\n<p>The accident involved four individuals crashing into the canal on a RZR off-road vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>One of the individuals has been reported missing since that accident.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/family-continues-search-for-missing-woman-after-canal-crash-in-merced-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Family continues search for missing woman after canal crash in Merced County<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Deputies say that the body can not be identified at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>This is an ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 The Merced County Sheriff\u2019s Department announced that they found a female body in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-170881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170881","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=170881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}