{"id":257803,"date":"2026-04-08T16:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/257803\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T16:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T16:28:10","slug":"pedestrian-killed-in-early-morning-crash-in-sacramento-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/257803\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian killed in early-morning crash in Sacramento"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A pedestrian was killed early Wednesday morning after being hit by a vehicle on Watt Avenue, authorities confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the California Highway Patrol (CHP) North Sacramento office, the accident happened around 4:51 a.m. on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The vehicle was traveling northbound when it hit the adult male pedestrian in the lanes. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">CHP officials said the driver remained at the scene following the crash. The circumstances leading up to the crash are under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No further information about the victim or the driver has been released at this time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Authorities are asking anyone with information about the incident to contact CHP North Sacramento.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pedestrian was killed early Wednesday morning after being hit by a vehicle on Watt Avenue, authorities confirmed.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[859,23493,121,123,122,1027],"class_list":["post-257803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-california-highway-patrol","tag-north-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-wednesday-morning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257803","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=257803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}