{"id":179357,"date":"2026-02-15T19:51:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T19:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/179357\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T19:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T19:51:10","slug":"sacramento-county-driver-suspected-of-driving-drunk-crashes-into-water-wheel-kion-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/179357\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento County driver suspected of driving drunk crashes into water wheel \u2013 KION TV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Jose  Fabian<\/p>\n<p>The California Highway Patrol said a 23-year-old was injured in a suspected drunken driving crash on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p>The crash happened early Saturday on eastbound Highway 50, west of Hazel Avenue, in Sacramento County. <\/p>\n<p>According to the CHP, the 23-year-old driver lost control while going at a high rate of speed. His vehicle then left the roadway, went through a chain link fence, slid sideways across a parking lot and crashed into a water wheel. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1771185070_182_crash-in-sacramento-county.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"Vehicle with crash damage in front of building \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/>The California Highway Patrol said the 23-year-old was the solo occupant of the vehicle, and he was seriously injured in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>                California Highway Patrol<\/p>\n<p>He was seriously injured in the crash and was released to the hospital. But he was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence, the CHP said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThankfully, he was alone. We take DUI very seriously and so should you,\u201d the CHP said. \u201cDesignate a sober driver, book a ride through a rideshare app, phone a friend, neighbor, or family member.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Jose Fabian The California Highway Patrol said a 23-year-old was injured in a suspected drunken driving crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-179357","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-sacramento","9":"tag-sacramento-headlines","10":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179357","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=179357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}