{"id":284216,"date":"2026-04-24T19:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/284216\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T19:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T19:20:07","slug":"woman-hospitalized-after-car-crashes-into-canal-in-eastern-fresno-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/284216\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman hospitalized after car crashes into canal in eastern Fresno County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Friday, April 24, 2026 6:41PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. &#8212; A woman was taken to the hospital after a vehicle crashed into a canal late Monday in eastern Fresno County, according to the California Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The crash happened just before 11:30 p.m. near Jensen and Navelencia avenues, just east of the community of Minkler.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">CHP officers said the car was doing donuts near the canal before it went into the water. Two people inside were able to swim out and then called CAL FIRE for help locating a woman who was still missing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Authorities said the woman was later found downstream in the canal and transported to Reedley Hospital. Her condition was not immediately available. Officers said she could not swim well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The driver of the vehicle was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence. As of early Tuesday morning, officials were waiting for a diver to become available to remove the vehicle from the canal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, April 24, 2026 6:41PM FRESNO, Calif. &#8212; A woman was taken to the hospital after a vehicle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[121955,113368,852,25725,17764,112,114,113,121951,121950,121952,121954,294,121953],"class_list":{"0":"post-284216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-121955","9":"tag-canal-crash","10":"tag-chp","11":"tag-dui-arrest","12":"tag-eastern-fresno-county","13":"tag-fresno","14":"tag-fresno-headlines","15":"tag-fresno-news","16":"tag-jensen-avenue","17":"tag-minkler","18":"tag-navelencia-avenue","19":"tag-reedley-hospital","20":"tag-timely","21":"tag-vehicle-in-canal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284216","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=284216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}