{"id":185830,"date":"2026-02-20T08:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T08:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/185830\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T08:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T08:11:08","slug":"driver-crashes-off-overpass-onto-highway-99-in-sacramento-chp-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/185830\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver crashes off overpass onto Highway 99 in Sacramento, CHP says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A driver was hospitalized after crashing their vehicle from an overpass onto Highway 99 in Sacramento, causing late-night traffic delays on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>California Highway Patrol&#8217;s South Sacramento office said the driver veered off the Martin Luther King Jr. overpass onto northbound 99 shortly after 10 p.m. That driver suffered only minor injuries, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle crashed through a fence before going off the overpass, causing debris to fall into the southbound lanes.<\/p>\n<p>The CHP said several vehicles struck that debris. No other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the initial crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The debris had blocked the southbound lanes, the CHP said, but traffic was moving again on both sides of the highway around 11 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver was hospitalized after crashing their vehicle from an overpass onto Highway 99 in Sacramento, causing late-night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185831,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-185830","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\/185830","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=185830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}