{"id":231936,"date":"2026-03-23T02:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T02:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/231936\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T02:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T02:19:15","slug":"motorcyclist-dies-after-i-5-crash-in-sacramento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/231936\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist dies after I-5 crash in Sacramento"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(FOX40.COM) \u2014 A motorcyclist is dead after crashing on Interstate 5 in Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">First responders received a report Friday after 10 p.m. of a traffic collision on northbound I-5, just south of Pocket Road, the California Highway Patrol said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When officers arrived, they found a motorcycle and its rider in the third lane of I-5. Officials said initial investigations showed the motorcyclist lost control and was thrown off before being struck by a passing vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The motorcyclist was pronounced dead at the scene despite life-saving efforts by first responders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Alcohol is not suspected to be a factor in the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers said the driver of the other vehicle stayed at the scene and cooperated with police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Sacramento County Coroner\u2019s Office will release the motorcyclist\u2019s identity after their next of kin is notified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fox40.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to FOX40 News.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to FOX40 News.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to FOX40 News. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(FOX40.COM) \u2014 A motorcyclist is dead after crashing on Interstate 5 in Sacramento. First responders received a report&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[859,105193,17410,121,25284,123,122,12838],"class_list":["post-231936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-california-highway-patrol","tag-initial-investigations","tag-motorcyclist","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-county-coroner","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-traffic-collision"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231936","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=231936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}