{"id":213525,"date":"2026-03-10T19:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/213525\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T19:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T19:28:08","slug":"wrong-way-crash-on-i-5-in-yolo-county-leaves-2-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/213525\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrong-way crash on I-5 in Yolo County leaves 2 dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investigators believe drugs or alcohol were factors in a wrong-way crash on Interstate 5 in rural Yolo County that left two people dead. <\/p>\n<p>California Highway Patrol says they were first alerted about the crash just before midnight Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>First responders to the scene south of County Road 8 found that two vehicles were involved \u2013 with one of the vehicles having apparently crossed over into the wrong direction of I-5. <\/p>\n<p>The wrong-way driver died in the crash, officers say, along with a passenger in the vehicle that was struck head-on. The other driver suffered major injuries. <\/p>\n<p>Authorities have not yet released the names of the people who died in the crash. <\/p>\n<p>CHP investigators are still looking into the crash, but drugs or alcohol were believed to be contributing factors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investigators believe drugs or alcohol were factors in a wrong-way crash on Interstate 5 in rural Yolo County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122,14771],"class_list":{"0":"post-213525","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","11":"tag-yolo-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213525","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=213525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}