A 78-year-old woman was found dead Saturday morning after being ejected from her car, which went down a steep embankment near Pine Flat Lake.<\/p>\n
The Fresno CHP Communications Center issued an Attempt to Locate call at about 5:30 p.m. on April 30th after a woman failed to meet someone at Kirch Flat.<\/p>\n
CHP, along with deputies from Fresno County, responded to the Kirch Flat area but were unable to locate the vehicle or the driver.<\/p>\n
Aerial assistance was requested, and CHP Air Operations and the Sheriff\u2019s Office helicopter, Eagle One, conducted a flyover but also did not locate the SUV.<\/p>\n
A deputy sergeant found the tan Lexus along Trimmer Springs Road, west of Maxon Road. <\/p>\n
The driver was found dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
A preliminary investigation indicates the Lexus was traveling westbound on Trimmer Springs Road when, for reasons still under investigation, it went left across the eastbound lane, continued onto the south shoulder, and went down a steep embankment. <\/p>\n
The vehicle overturned multiple times and ejected the driver, who investigators said was not wearing a seatbelt. <\/p>\n
The SUV came to rest about 200 feet from the roadway.<\/p>\n
Authorities said it is unknown whether drugs or alcohol were contributing factors.<\/p>\n
The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 78-year-old woman was found dead Saturday morning after being ejected from her car, which went down a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-297991","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\/297991","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=297991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}