{"id":181861,"date":"2026-02-17T20:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/181861\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T20:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:00:07","slug":"fresno-county-authorities-name-driver-3-teen-passengers-in-fatal-madera-county-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/181861\/","title":{"rendered":"Fresno County Authorities Name Driver, 3 Teen Passengers in Fatal Madera County Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four people were killed and one critically injured early Sunday after a vehicle fleeing deputies <a href=\"https:\/\/gvwire.com\/2026\/02\/16\/madera-county-crash-leaves-four-dead-one-critically-injured-after-fleeing-vehicle-wrecks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">crashed at Highway 99 and Avenue 17<\/a>, the Madera County Sheriff\u2019s Office reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Fresno County Sheriff-Coroner\u2019s Office said the driver, Juan Perez Quezada, 25, and passengers Benito Mendoza and David Daza Perez, both 15, and Stephen Rodriguez, 13, died in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said their cities of residency and relationships to one another were not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>Around 1:10 a.m. Sunday, deputies responded to multiple reports of subjects breaking into vehicles near El Vado Drive and Avenue 18 \u00bd.<\/p>\n<p>A vehicle matching the description provided by reporting witnesses fled at high speed and later lost control, colliding with no other vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The driver and three passengers were pronounced dead at the scene, while a fourth male passenger was airlifted to a hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Correction: The headline has been changed for clarity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Connect with\u00a0\u00a0on social media. Got a tip? Send an\u00a0.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four people were killed and one critically injured early Sunday after a vehicle fleeing deputies crashed at Highway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-181861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181861","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=181861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}