{"id":211187,"date":"2026-03-09T04:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T04:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/211187\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T04:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T04:41:08","slug":"sacramento-police-search-for-driver-involved-in-deadly-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/211187\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento police search for driver involved in deadly crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police search for driver involved in crash that killed man in Sacramento<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1769020329_917_kcra.png\" class=\"lazyload lazyload-in-view branding\" alt=\"KCRA logo\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tUpdated: 9:19 PM PDT Mar 8, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcra.com\/article\/hearst-television-news-policy-statements\/14471973\" class=\"editorial-standards border-left\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Editorial Standards \u24d8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA driver is wanted in connection to a hit-and-run crash that killed a pedestrian in north Sacramento, police said.The collision happened around 8 p.m. Saturday in the area of Norwood Avenue and Jessie Avenue.According to police, officers found the victim, only identified as a man, lying down in the street. Officers attempted life-saving measures, but fire crews pronounced him deceased.Police said two vehicles were involved, but only one driver remained at the scene.Detectives are investigating the circumstances of the incident and do not have a vehicle description to release, police said.The Sacramento County Coroner&#8217;s Office will identify the victim after his family is notified.See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tSACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A driver is wanted in connection to a hit-and-run crash that killed a pedestrian in north Sacramento, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The collision happened around 8 p.m. Saturday in the area of Norwood Avenue and Jessie Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, officers found the victim, only identified as a man, lying down in the street. Officers attempted life-saving measures, but fire crews pronounced him deceased.<\/p>\n<p>Police said two vehicles were involved, but only one driver remained at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives are investigating the circumstances of the incident and do not have a vehicle description to release, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The Sacramento County Coroner&#8217;s Office will identify the victim after his family is notified.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcra.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcra.com\/article\/get-kcra-news-on-the-go-download\/44039145\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Download our app<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcra.com\/subscribe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@KCRA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police search for driver involved in crash that killed man in Sacramento Updated: 9:19 PM PDT Mar 8,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2820,7,350,5324,23615,287,95164,23493,97091,2322,984,72742,236,9881,121,123,122,97090,669,2734,178,2601],"class_list":{"0":"post-211187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-app","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-crash","11":"tag-deadly-crash","12":"tag-download","13":"tag-driver","14":"tag-jessie-avenue","15":"tag-north-sacramento","16":"tag-norwood-avenue","17":"tag-officer","18":"tag-pedestrian","19":"tag-pedestrian-crash","20":"tag-police","21":"tag-road-safety","22":"tag-sacramento","23":"tag-sacramento-headlines","24":"tag-sacramento-news","25":"tag-sacramento-police-search","26":"tag-subscribe","27":"tag-top-california-story","28":"tag-vehicle","29":"tag-victim"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211187","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=211187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}