{"id":296882,"date":"2026-05-02T18:11:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T18:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/296882\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T18:11:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T18:11:08","slug":"13-year-old-killed-12-year-old-hospitalized-following-crash-in-northwest-fresno-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/296882\/","title":{"rendered":"13-year-old killed, 12-year-old hospitalized following crash in northwest Fresno, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday, May 2, 2026 5:53PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"13-year-old killed, 12-year-old hospitalized following crash in northwest Fresno, police say\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. &#8212; The Fresno Police Department is investigating a deadly crash that took the life of one of the two teens involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officers responded to the intersection of Bullard and Palm shortly after 10:30 p.m. on Saturday after multiple 911 calls.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">When they arrived, they found a white truck and a motorcycle had collided.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">13-year-old Dominiq Puentes and a 12-year-old were on the a moped scooter and struck by a truck.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Dominiq was driving and died at the hospital from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The 12-year-old is in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The driver of the truck stayed at the scene and is cooperating with investigators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The cause of the crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday, May 2, 2026 5:53PM FRESNO, Calif. &#8212; The Fresno Police Department is investigating a deadly crash that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[125908,112,114,113],"class_list":["post-296882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-125908","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296882","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=296882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}