{"id":194018,"date":"2026-02-26T01:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/194018\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T01:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T01:43:07","slug":"major-crash-causes-delays-on-westbound-i-80-in-citrus-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/194018\/","title":{"rendered":"Major crash causes delays on westbound I-80 in Citrus Heights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A major crash was causing significant traffic delays on Interstate 80 in Citrus Heights late Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>A crash involving at least two vehicles happened around 4:30 p.m. on the westbound side of the freeway near Antelope Road.<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento Metro Fire said five people were injured, with at least one of them described as being in critical condition. The severity if the other injuries was not immediately known.<\/p>\n<p>The crash caused two of the westbound lanes to be blocked. It was not yet clear when those lanes could be cleared.<\/p>\n<p>CBS News Sacramento has reached out to the California Highway Patrol for further details but has not yet heard back.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back here for updates as they become available.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A major crash was causing significant traffic delays on Interstate 80 in Citrus Heights late Wednesday afternoon. A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3297,1548,121,357,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-194018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-car-crash","9":"tag-citrus-heights","10":"tag-sacramento","11":"tag-sacramento-county","12":"tag-sacramento-headlines","13":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194018","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=194018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}