{"id":242283,"date":"2026-03-29T16:41:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/242283\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T16:41:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T16:41:08","slug":"semi-carrying-50000-pounds-of-meat-jackknifes-and-catches-fire-closing-major-sacramento-connector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/242283\/","title":{"rendered":"Semi carrying 50,000 pounds of meat jackknifes and catches fire, closing major Sacramento connector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 A section of Business 80 in Sacramento remains closed following a crash involving a semi-truck transporting approximately 50,000 pounds of packaged meat.<\/p>\n<p>CHP says the incident occurred on the southbound connector to westbound US-50. The semi reportedly struck another vehicle and jackknifed across the ramp, blocking traffic lanes.<\/p>\n<p>The truck also caught fire. All individuals involved have been accounted for. Officials have not confirmed whether there were any injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The southbound Business 80 connector to westbound US-50 is closed, along with the T Street on-ramp to southbound Business 80. There is no estimated time for reopening.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists are advised to use alternate routes as crews continue work at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 A section of Business 80 in Sacramento remains closed following a crash involving a semi-truck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-242283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242283","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=242283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}