{"id":245123,"date":"2026-03-31T14:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T14:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/245123\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T14:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T14:31:10","slug":"1-dead-in-modesto-area-crash-off-highway-99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/245123\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead in Modesto area crash off Highway 99"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fiery crash left one person dead along Highway 99 in the Modesto area early Tuesday morning, authorities say. <\/p>\n<p>Modesto Fire Department officials say crews responded to the scene near Highway 99 and Main Street a little before 12:30 a.m. to investigate a crash. <\/p>\n<p>At the scene, first responders found that a vehicle had gone off the freeway and crashed into a tree. The vehicle then caught fire. <\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/modesto-fatal-fiery-crash.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"modesto-fatal-fiery-crash.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Scene of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>                Modesto Fire Department<\/p>\n<p>Crews quickly got the fire under control, but Modesto Fire says one person inside the vehicle died. <\/p>\n<p>The identity of the person who died has not been released. <\/p>\n<p>Exactly what led up to the crash remains under investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fiery crash left one person dead along Highway 99 in the Modesto area early Tuesday morning, authorities&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245124,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[32526,1825,15563,121,123,122,14770],"class_list":{"0":"post-245123","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-ceres-news","9":"tag-highway-99","10":"tag-modesto-news","11":"tag-sacramento","12":"tag-sacramento-headlines","13":"tag-sacramento-news","14":"tag-stanislaus-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245123","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=245123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}