{"id":297135,"date":"2026-05-02T22:56:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T22:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/297135\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T22:56:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T22:56:07","slug":"goats-and-sheep-enter-intersection-on-elk-grove-florin-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/297135\/","title":{"rendered":"Goats and sheep enter intersection on Elk Grove Florin Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/SAC traffic alert still chyron frame.png\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\" \" alt=\"Traffic Alert\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Drivers may have noticed something out of the ordinary Saturday morning near south Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>The California Highway Patrol received a report at 9 a.m. of about 20 goats and sheep in the intersection of Elk Grove Florin Road and Spencerport Drive.<\/p>\n<p>At least one sheep was hit, according to the report. Its condition is unknown.<\/p>\n<p>There was heavy traffic in the area at the time, according to the CHP\u2019s online activity log. However, a few minutes after the initial report, the agency was informed the animals had moved off the roadway.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/315233098\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/SAC_8021_CoreySchmidt_HA_260409.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Corey Schmidt\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/315233098\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corey Schmidt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Corey Schmidt is a watchdog reporter for the Sacramento Bee, focusing on Folsom, El Dorado Hills and Sacramento County\u2019s eastern suburbs. Previously, he was the government watchdog reporter for the St. Cloud Times in Minnesota. Schmidt received his bachelor\u2019s degree from DePaul University in Chicago and his master\u2019s degree from Yale University.\u00a0\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Drivers may have noticed something out of the ordinary Saturday morning near south Sacramento. The California Highway Patrol&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-297135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297135","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=297135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}