{"id":223863,"date":"2026-03-17T15:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/223863\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T15:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:53:08","slug":"driver-dies-in-oakland-traffic-collision-the-press-democrat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/223863\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver dies in Oakland traffic collision \u2013 The Press Democrat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND \u2014 A 30-year-old man died Tuesday morning after the car he was driving collided with another vehicle in East Oakland, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The man\u2019s name has not yet been released, pending notification of his family.<\/p>\n<p>The collision happened about 2:13 a.m. Tuesday at the intersection\u00a0 of 68th and Bancroft avenues.<\/p>\n<p>According to initial police reports, the man killed was driving a Honda sedan northbound on 68th Avenue when it collided with a Cadillac CTS that was going eastbound on Bancroft Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old man was pronounced deceased at the scene.\u00a0 The driver of the Cadillac and his passenger were not injured and remained at the scene, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said it is not yet known if drugs or alcohol were factors in the collision.<\/p>\n<p>The collision remains under investigation. Anyone with information may contact traffic investigators at 510-777-8570.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND \u2014 A 30-year-old man died Tuesday morning after the car he was driving collided with another vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[7,8,100,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-223863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-california","tag-california-news","tag-news","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223863","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=223863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}