{"id":272783,"date":"2026-04-17T16:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/272783\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T16:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:20:08","slug":"pedestrian-dies-after-hit-by-vehicle-on-florin-road-in-sacramento-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/272783\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dies after hit by vehicle on Florin Road in Sacramento County"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pedestrian dies after hit by vehicle on Florin Road in Sacramento County, CHP says<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\tUpdated: 9:00 AM PDT Apr 17, 2026\n\t\t<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA pedestrian died after being struck by a vehicle on Florin Road in Sacramento County on Friday morning, the California Highway Patrol said.The crash was reported at 6:08 a.m. on Florin Road east of French Road, CHP said. According to a preliminary investigation, a driver saw a pedestrian lying down in the roadway and braked but was unable to avoid hitting her. The woman died at the scene. The driver stopped a short distance away and cooperated with investigators, CHP said. The roadway has since reopened. See our traffic map.Editor’s Note: A CHP spokesperson initially characterized the crash as a hit-and-run, but later said that information was incorrect. 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

A pedestrian died after being struck by a vehicle on Florin Road in Sacramento County on Friday morning, the California Highway Patrol said.<\/p>\n

The crash was reported at 6:08 a.m. on Florin Road east of French Road, CHP said. <\/p>\n

According to a preliminary investigation, a driver saw a pedestrian lying down in the roadway and braked but was unable to avoid hitting her. <\/p>\n

The woman died at the scene. <\/p>\n

The driver stopped a short distance away and cooperated with investigators, CHP said. <\/p>\n

The roadway has since reopened. See our traffic map<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Editor’s Note: A CHP spokesperson initially characterized the crash as a hit-and-run, but later said that information was incorrect. <\/p>\n

See more coverage of top California stories here<\/a> | Download our app<\/a> | Subscribe to our morning newsletter<\/a> | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pedestrian dies after hit by vehicle on Florin Road in Sacramento County, CHP says Updated: 9:00 AM PDT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128848,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2820,852,118249,118251,350,23615,287,2072,118250,18327,31336,25164,473,671,23178,984,21003,121,357,123,122,669,2734,178],"class_list":{"0":"post-272783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-app","9":"tag-chp","10":"tag-chp-online-log","11":"tag-confirmation","12":"tag-crash","13":"tag-download","14":"tag-driver","15":"tag-editor","16":"tag-fletcher-farm-drive","17":"tag-florin-road","18":"tag-friday-morning","19":"tag-hit-and-run-crash","20":"tag-kcra","21":"tag-more-coverage","22":"tag-note","23":"tag-pedestrian","24":"tag-roadway","25":"tag-sacramento","26":"tag-sacramento-county","27":"tag-sacramento-headlines","28":"tag-sacramento-news","29":"tag-subscribe","30":"tag-top-california-story","31":"tag-vehicle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272783","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=272783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}