{"id":243718,"date":"2026-03-30T18:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T18:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/243718\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T18:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T18:46:08","slug":"car-stolen-from-las-vegas-crashes-on-i-5-in-fresno-county-killing-passenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/243718\/","title":{"rendered":"Car stolen from Las Vegas crashes on I-5 in Fresno County killing passenger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (FOX26)  \u2014 A reckless driving report on Interstate 5 in western Fresno County ended in a rollover crash Thursday afternoon that killed a passenger and left the driver with serious injuries, according to the California Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>CHP responded just after 2 p.m. on Friday, after receiving a call about a reckless driver traveling southbound on I-5 at Shields Avenue. <\/p>\n<p>A records check of the license plate number provided by the reporting party showed the vehicle, a white Toyota Corolla, was associated with a previously reported stolen vehicle from Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Officers located the vehicle and tried to pull the car over, but the driver continued to drive recklessly, lost control, and overturned on the shoulder of southbound I-5 south of Derrick Avenue, the CHP said.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/driver-injured-after-taking-out-utility-pole-near-sanger\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Driver injured after taking out utility pole near Sanger<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The driver exited the vehicle after the crash and was immediately taken into custody. The driver sustained moderate to major injuries, according to the CHP.<\/p>\n<p>The rear passenger was ejected during the crash and was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The crash remains under investigation by the CHP Coalinga Area Office.<\/p>\n<p>Note: CHP previously said the driver was killed but corrected the story on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A reckless driving report on Interstate 5 in western Fresno County ended in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":{"0":"post-243718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-fresno","9":"tag-fresno-headlines","10":"tag-fresno-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243718","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=243718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}