{"id":287399,"date":"2026-04-26T23:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T23:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/287399\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T23:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T23:45:10","slug":"woman-dead-challenger-driver-arrested-after-dui-reckless-driving-ends-in-crash-into-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/287399\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman dead, Challenger driver arrested after DUI reckless driving ends in crash into canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A woman is dead and a male driver was arrested after a DUI crash into a canal on Thursday night in Fresno County.<\/p>\n<p>CHP Fresno says officers were called out around 11:25 p.m. to Jensen Avenue, just east of Navelencia Avenue for reports of a crash into the Friant-Kern Canal.<\/p>\n<p>When officers and EMS arrived, they investigated and found out that three people were in a Dodge Challenger when it crashed into the canal.<\/p>\n<p>Two men were able to escape, and get out of the water, but a female passenger was still missing.<\/p>\n<p>A CAL FIRE water rescue team searched and found the 25-year-old woman downstream.<\/p>\n<p>[RELATED] <a href=\"https:\/\/kmph.com\/news\/local\/search-underway-for-missing-employee-at-national-raisin-company-in-fowler-digester-fresno-county-misisng-disappearance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Employee missing, possibly fell into industrial water digester at National Raisin Company<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She was removed from the water and life-saving measures were performed.<\/p>\n<p>She was rushed to the hospital but was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was identified as Wendy Rivera Gonzalez.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, 22-year-old Alexander Alcocer, was determined to be under the influence and was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence causing injury, as well as gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated.<\/p>\n<p>Officers later found out the car driving recklessly in a dirt lot across from the canal.<\/p>\n<p>The dust made it to where the driver could not see, and he drove into the canal.<\/p>\n<p>The crash is still under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>JOIN THE CONVERSATION (5)<\/p>\n<p>Alcocer was arrested and has a bail set at $260,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A woman is dead and a male driver was arrested after a DUI&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-287399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287399","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=287399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}