{"id":251648,"date":"2026-04-04T13:29:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T13:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/251648\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T13:29:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T13:29:24","slug":"medic-helicopter-lands-on-highway-50-after-placerville-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/251648\/","title":{"rendered":"Medic helicopter lands on Highway 50 after Placerville crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775309363_476_SAC generic police still chyron frame.png\"   width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" title=\"\" alt=\"Police tape at crime scene\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The California Highway Patrol was investigating a crash on Friday that briefly shut down Highway 50 in El Dorado County after a vehicle went off the road and crashed at the bottom of an embankment, leaving its driver and passenger with serious injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The westbound lanes on Highway 50 were shut down for about 10 minutes for a medic helicopter to land and transport a male driver and a female passenger, said Officer Hugh Council of the CHP\u2019s Placerville office. He said both occupants in the vehicle suffered serious injuries and were taken to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The single-vehicle crash occurred on the highway\u2019s westbound lanes near the Red Hawk Casino in Placerville. Caltrans photos show a white pickup was involved in Friday\u2019s crash.<\/p>\n<p>Council said the white vehicle went off Highway 50 and crashed down an embankment. After the helicopter took the two injured people to the hospital, he said one of the westbound lanes remained closed for about two hours as authorities pulled the crashed vehicle out of the embankment.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after 2 p.m. Friday, Caltrans officials announced all westbound lanes were again open to vehicle traffic.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Westbound US 50 in El Dorado County is now back OPEN after a crash that required a vehicle recovery and medevac helicopter landing on the highway. Thanks to all who assisted with this effort today. Please drive safely this holiday weekend! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CHPPlacerville?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@CHPPlacerville<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElDoradoSheriff?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@ElDoradoSheriff<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YmTVIlCTH6\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/YmTVIlCTH6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Caltrans District 3 (@CaltransDist3) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CaltransDist3\/status\/2040174873579077797?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">April 3, 2026<\/a><br \/>\n        Related Stories from  Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/239969303\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SAC_LS_2022_Rosalio_Ahumada.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Rosalio Ahumada\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/239969303\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rosalio Ahumada<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Rosalio Ahumada writes breaking news stories related to crime and public safety for The Sacramento Bee. He speaks Spanish fluently and has worked as a news reporter in the Central Valley since 2004.\n            <\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The California Highway Patrol was investigating a crash on Friday that briefly shut down Highway 50 in El&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-251648","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\/251648","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=251648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}