{"id":205643,"date":"2026-03-05T14:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/205643\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T14:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:24:08","slug":"off-road-motorcycle-rider-injured-after-collision-with-truck-in-central-fresno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/205643\/","title":{"rendered":"Off-road motorcycle rider injured after collision with truck in Central Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, March 5, 2026 1:57PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Off-road motorcycle rider injured after collision with truck in Central Fresno\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; An off-road motorcycle rider was hospitalized after being hit by a pickup truck in Central Fresno on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The crash happened around 6:30 p.m. near Fresno Street and Weldon Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Police said the motorcycle did not have lights on when it entered the intersection.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;It appears the pit bike was going southbound on Fresno Street along the west curve, the truck was going northbound,&#8221; Fresno Police Sgt. Mike Stanford said. &#8220;The truck was making a left turn and as the pit bike was approaching the intersection, they collided in the intersection behind me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officers described the rider&#8217;s injuries as serious, but said the person is expected to survive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Police said the pickup driver stayed at the scene and was not injured. The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, March 5, 2026 1:57PM FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; An off-road motorcycle rider was hospitalized after being hit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[95041,2392,112,114,113,3695,30977,95039,95040,60037,294,7199],"class_list":["post-205643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-95041","tag-central-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-police","tag-intersection-accident","tag-off-road-motorcycle-crash","tag-pit-bike-collision","tag-serious-injuries","tag-timely","tag-truck-driver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205643","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=205643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}