{"id":249057,"date":"2026-04-02T21:44:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/249057\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T21:44:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:44:26","slug":"sacramento-woman-killed-in-highway-99-crash-near-merced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/249057\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento woman killed in Highway 99 crash near Merced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(FOX40.COM) \u2014 A 69-year-old Sacramento woman was killed in a solo-vehicle crash on Highway 99 near Merced on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Video: Easter Sunday to see temperatures in the 80s<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The crash happened around 5:09 p.m. on northbound Highway 99 at Le Grand Road, California Highway Patrol officers announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers said the woman was driving a Cadillac SUV when she drifted onto the right shoulder and up a dirt embankment before colliding with the concrete base of the Le Grand Road overcrossing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The vehicle sustained major damage before resting in an \u201cunsafe location,\u201d\u00a0 officers said. First responders couldn\u2019t immediately free the woman, who was unresponsive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">She died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Drugs and\/or alcohol do not appear to be a factor, officers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information is asked to contact CHP Officer Mason at (209) 356-6600.<\/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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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 69-year-old Sacramento woman was killed in a solo-vehicle crash on Highway 99 near Merced on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231937,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[859,111086,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-249057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-california-highway-patrol","tag-northbound-highway-99","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249057","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=249057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249057\/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=249057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}