{"id":276716,"date":"2026-04-20T12:00:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/276716\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T12:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T12:00:28","slug":"3-killed-near-auburn-head-on-crash-on-foresthill-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/276716\/","title":{"rendered":"3 killed near Auburn head-on crash on Foresthill Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Police<\/p>\n

Two drivers and a passenger died after a head-on crash Thursday afternoon on Foresthill Road near the Auburn State Recreation Area, authorities said.<\/p>\n

The collision was reported about 3:55 p.m. east of Lake Clementine Road, according to the California Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n

A black SUV traveling eastbound and a white sedan traveling westbound collided head-on, Officer Mike Hamilton, a spokesperson for the CHP\u2019s Auburn office, said. Both drivers died at the scene.<\/p>\n

A female passenger in the SUV suffered major injuries and was flown by air ambulance to a hospital. Hamilton said Friday that the passenger died of her injuries.<\/p>\n

The cause of the crash remained under investigation. CHP logs show one vehicle was requested to be preserved as evidence but DUI was not suspected as a factor in the crash, Hamilton said.<\/p>\n

Authorities urged witnesses to contact the CHP Auburn office at 530-401-9910.<\/p>\n

Foresthill Road reopened just after 6 p.m., the CHP said.<\/p>\n

This story was originally published April 16, 2026 at 5:29 PM.<\/p>\n

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Nicole Buss<\/a><\/p>\n

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Nicole Buss is The Sacramento Bee\u2019s Roseville\/Placer County watchdog reporter. She previously covered Placer County at Gold Country Media. Buss grew up in Lincoln and is a graduate of Sierra College and Arizona State University.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two drivers and a passenger died after a head-on crash Thursday afternoon on Foresthill Road near the Auburn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265366,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":{"0":"post-276716","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-sacramento","9":"tag-sacramento-headlines","10":"tag-sacramento-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276716","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=276716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}