{"id":181653,"date":"2026-02-17T17:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/181653\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T17:08:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:08:07","slug":"freight-train-strikes-vehicle-near-wheatland-woman-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/181653\/","title":{"rendered":"Freight train strikes vehicle near Wheatland, woman dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities say a woman has died after an early morning crash on the train tracks in Yuba County. <\/p>\n<p>California Highway Patrol says the crash happened a little after 2 a.m. near Highway 65 and Dairy Road, just outside of the town of Wheatland. <\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to the scene and found that a freight train had struck a Toyota Prius that was on the tracks, sending the vehicle rolling. The train was stopped after the crash. <\/p>\n<p>The driver was identified as a 58-year-old woman. She was out of her vehicle, officers say, and died from her injuries. <\/p>\n<p>Exactly what led up to the crash is under investigation, CHP says, with the name of the driver being withheld at this time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities say a woman has died after an early morning crash on the train tracks in Yuba County.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122,41287],"class_list":{"0":"post-181653","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","11":"tag-yuba-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181653","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=181653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}