{"id":211786,"date":"2026-03-09T16:41:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T16:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/211786\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T16:41:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T16:41:24","slug":"driver-sought-in-fatal-north-sacramento-pedestrian-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/211786\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver sought in fatal North Sacramento pedestrian crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773074484_323_SAC pedestrian train fatality vehicle vs person chyron still frame.png\"   width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" title=\"\" alt=\"Pedestrian fatality\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police continue their search for a driver who fled a crash that killed a pedestrian Saturday night in North Sacramento, according to the Sacramento Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Officers were called just after 8 p.m. to Norwood and Jessie avenues in the Robla neighborhood for reports of a pedestrian who was struck by a car. They found a 44-year-old unhoused man in the roadway and attempted life-saving measures, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters pronounced the man dead at the scene. The Sacramento County Coroner\u2019s Office will release the victim\u2019s name after relatives have been notified of his death.<\/p>\n<p>Police said two vehicles were involved in the collision. One driver fled before officers arrived, while the other remained at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Officers did not share a description of the suspect vehicle and said the crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police continue their search for a driver who fled a crash that killed a pedestrian Saturday night in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[97423,97424,121,97422,123,122,97425],"class_list":["post-211786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-north-sacramento-hit-and-run","tag-norwood-and-jessie-crash-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-fatal-pedestrian-crash","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sacramento-police-pedestrian-collision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211786","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=211786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}