{"id":220374,"date":"2026-03-15T04:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T04:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/220374\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T04:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T04:30:13","slug":"1-dead-1-seriously-injured-in-highway-99-near-galt-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/220374\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead, 1 seriously injured in Highway 99 near Galt CA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773549012_139_SAC roadway fatality killed highway still chyron frame.png\"   width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" title=\"\" alt=\"Roadway fatality\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A person died early Saturday morning in a car crash involving alcohol on Highway 99 in Galt, the California Highway Patrol said.<\/p>\n<p>A male driver was driving with another passenger in his black Honda Civic at 2:40 a.m. south of Pringle Avenue at an unknown speed, according to California Highway Patrol South Sacramento spokesperson Officer Michael Harper.<\/p>\n<p>The Honda left the road, traveling onto the shoulder and ended up in an embankment. The car crashed into a guardrail and overturned, according to Harper, who said alcohol was suspected as a factor in the fatal collision.<\/p>\n<p>CHP South Sacramento units arrived at the scene, where the driver had suffered major injuries and was transported to a local hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The passenger was pronounced dead at the scene, Harper said.<\/p>\n<p>Harper said the passenger was wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/314568916\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SAC_0021_PK_20260121_BUSS.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Nicole Buss\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/314568916\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicole Buss<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Nicole Buss is The Sacramento Bee\u2019s Roseville\/Placer County watchdog reporter. She previously covered Placer County at Gold Country Media. Buss grew up in Lincoln and is a graduate of Sierra College and Arizona State University.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A person died early Saturday morning in a car crash involving alcohol on Highway 99 in Galt, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[100823,100824,100821,100822,100825,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-220374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-alcohol-involved-crash","tag-fatal-crash-galt","tag-galt-car-crash","tag-highway-99-accident","tag-honda-civic-crash","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220374","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=220374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}