{"id":296790,"date":"2026-05-02T16:31:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T16:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/296790\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T16:31:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T16:31:30","slug":"teen-killed-11-year-old-injured-in-crash-at-intersection-fresno-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/296790\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen killed, 11-year-old injured in crash at intersection, Fresno police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Fresno Bee;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Fresno Bee\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"266\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/37ec2ce0-5e8c-11ec-b1fb-0027018c0b4f.png\"\/><\/a>Sat, May 2, 2026 at 7:54 AM UTC<\/p>\n<p>A 17-year-old motorcycle rider was killed and an 11-year-old passenger was hospitalized in critical condition following a two-vehicle crash in Fresno on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred around 10:40 p.m. at the intersection of Bullard and Palm avenues, according to Fresno Police Lt. Justin Hoagland.<\/p>\n<p>Police said a white truck was traveling west on Bullard Avenue and entered the intersection at Palm Avenue when the crash happened.<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrived to what Hoagland described as a \u201cchaotic\u201d scene, with a large group of pedestrians gathered nearby.<\/p>\n<p>Officers rendered aid before both juveniles were taken to a local hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old later died, while the 11-year-old was in serious condition, Hoagland said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the truck stayed at the scene and was cooperating with investigators.<\/p>\n<p>Police do not suspect drugs or alcohol were factors in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities are canvassing the area for surveillance video to determine what led up to the collision.<\/p>\n<p>Hoagland noted that a motorcycle was attached to the white truck at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The department\u2019s Collision Reconstruction Unit was called to investigate.<\/p>\n<p>The intersection remained closed for several hours following the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to contact the police at 559-621-7000.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"A motorcycle remained intact following a crash with a truck at Bullard and Palm avenues in Fresno, California on Friday, May 1, 2026.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"1215\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/fd1e12738020ae6c350c4b1ad5e11028.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A motorcycle remained intact following a crash with a truck at Bullard and Palm avenues in Fresno, California on Friday, May 1, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sat, May 2, 2026 at 7:54 AM UTC A 17-year-old motorcycle rider was killed and an 11-year-old passenger&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[358,112,114,113,3695,125865,111761,109622,70514,125866],"class_list":["post-296790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-critical-condition","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-police","tag-hoagland","tag-justin-hoagland","tag-palm-avenue","tag-the-intersection","tag-white-truck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296790","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=296790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}