{"id":258140,"date":"2026-04-08T20:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/258140\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T20:38:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:38:14","slug":"pedestrian-dies-after-being-struck-on-watt-avenue-in-arden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/258140\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dies after being struck on Watt Avenue in Arden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/SAC pedestrian train fatality vehicle vs person chyron still frame.png\"   width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" title=\"\" alt=\"Pedestrian fatality\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A pedestrian died early Wednesday after being struck by a vehicle in Arden Arcade, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash on Watt Avenue at Arden Way was reported just before 5 a.m. near Arden Middle School, according to the California Highway Patrol\u2019s North Sacramento office and Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District dispatch logs.<\/p>\n<p>CHP North Sacramento spokesperson Officer Justin Fetterly said a vehicle traveling northbound on Watt Avenue hit an adult man who was in the roadway. The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene by responding paramedics.<\/p>\n<p>The driver remained at the scene following the crash, CHP officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The identity of the person struck was expected to be released by the Sacramento County Coroner\u2019s Office once relatives are notified of the death.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information was asked to contact the CHP North Sacramento office at 916-348-2300.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pedestrian died early Wednesday after being struck by a vehicle in Arden Arcade, authorities said. The crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258141,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-258140","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\/258140","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=258140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}