{"id":274535,"date":"2026-04-18T18:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T18:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/274535\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T18:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T18:57:07","slug":"woman-is-hit-and-killed-on-highway-99-in-fresno-chp-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/274535\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman is hit and killed on Highway 99 in Fresno, CHP says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, April 18, 2026 6:40PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Woman is hit and killed on Highway 99 in Fresno, CHP says\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. &#8212; The California Highway Patrol is investigating the death of a woman who was hit by a car on Highway 99 on Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officers responded at 10:00 p.m. to the Southbound lane of Highway 99, just north of North Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">When they arrived, emergency personnel were administering life-saving measures to a woman, but she died at the scene from her injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officials say a person driving a Dodge Charger was traveling southbound in the number one lane when a woman entered the roadway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The car struck the woman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The driver remained on scene and cooperated with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Drugs or alcohol do not appear to be factors for the driver, and a toxicology report is pending for the woman who died.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">This crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday, April 18, 2026 6:40PM FRESNO, Calif. &#8212; The California Highway Patrol is investigating the death of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[118912,350,158,5324,112,114,113,1825,118911,83114,66633,118910],"class_list":["post-274535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-118912","tag-crash","tag-deadly","tag-deadly-crash","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-highway-99","tag-hit-and-killed","tag-north-avenue","tag-southbound-99","tag-woman-struck-on-99"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274535","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=274535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}