{"id":257716,"date":"2026-04-08T15:16:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/257716\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T15:16:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:16:26","slug":"pedestrian-dies-in-sacramento-county-crash-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/257716\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dies in Sacramento County crash, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA pedestrian died Wednesday morning after he was hit by a vehicle in Sacramento County, officials said.Traffic logs from the California Highway Patrol indicate that this crash was reported around 4:52 a.m. at Watt Avenue and Arden Way.The Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District confirmed that a man was hit by a vehicle and died at the scene.  A KCRA 3 photographer observed towing crews pulling away a pickup truck with major front-end damage from the scene.CHP temporarily blocked off the roads where the crash happened, but the roadway has since reopened.KCRA 3 is working to gather details on what led to the crash and if DUI or foul play is a factor.See news happening? Send us your photos or videos if it\u2019s safe to do so at kcra.com\/upload.See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tARDEN-ARCADE, Calif. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A pedestrian died Wednesday morning after he was hit by a vehicle in Sacramento County, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic logs from the California Highway Patrol indicate that this crash was reported around 4:52 a.m. at Watt Avenue and Arden Way.<\/p>\n<p>The Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District confirmed that a man was hit by a vehicle and died at the scene.  A KCRA 3 photographer observed towing crews pulling away a pickup truck with major front-end damage from the scene.<\/p>\n<p>CHP temporarily blocked off the roads where the crash happened, but the roadway has since reopened.<\/p>\n<p>KCRA 3 is working to gather details on what led to the crash and if DUI or foul play is a factor.<\/p>\n<p>See news happening? Send us your photos or videos if it\u2019s safe to do so at <a href=\"http:\/\/kcra.com\/upload\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">kcra.com\/upload<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcra.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcra.com\/article\/get-kcra-news-on-the-go-download\/44039145\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Download our app<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcra.com\/subscribe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@KCRA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pedestrian died Wednesday morning after he was hit by a vehicle in Sacramento County, officials said.Traffic logs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2820,21106,3047,5324,23615,29995,473,671,3335,984,31406,121,357,58105,123,122,2489,2734,3300,178,2636],"class_list":{"0":"post-257716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-app","9":"tag-arden-way","10":"tag-com","11":"tag-deadly-crash","12":"tag-download","13":"tag-foul-play","14":"tag-kcra","15":"tag-more-coverage","16":"tag-official","17":"tag-pedestrian","18":"tag-pickup-truck","19":"tag-sacramento","20":"tag-sacramento-county","21":"tag-sacramento-county-crash","22":"tag-sacramento-headlines","23":"tag-sacramento-news","24":"tag-scene","25":"tag-top-california-story","26":"tag-upload","27":"tag-vehicle","28":"tag-watt-avenue"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257716","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=257716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}