A man died Tuesday in a solo car crash on State Route 24 in Lafayette, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The crash took place at about 5:16 p.m. on the highway\u2019s westbound lanes, just east of Acalanes Road, according to the California Highway Patrol in Contra Costa County.<\/p>\n
Investigators said a sedan was traveling west when, \u201cfor an unknown reason,\u201d the driver veered off and struck two trees, officials said. The roadway was slippery due to rainfall. The driver was then extricated from the car, officials said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The driver, who was not wearing his seatbelt at the time of the crash, died from his injuries at the hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Authorities were investigating if alcohol was a factor in the crash. The investigation was underway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man died Tuesday in a solo car crash on State Route 24 in Lafayette, authorities said. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[184,723,332,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-247379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-bay-area","tag-crime","tag-east-bay","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247379","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=247379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}