{"id":298613,"date":"2026-05-04T02:32:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T02:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/298613\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T02:32:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T02:32:22","slug":"three-injured-in-two-vehicle-crash-near-highway-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/298613\/","title":{"rendered":"Three injured in two-vehicle crash near Highway 50"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/sac-folsom-crash.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"Three people were injured in a two-vehicle crash in Folsom on Highway 50 and Prairie City Road, according to the Sacramento Metro Fire District.\" alt=\"Three people were injured in a two-vehicle crash in Folsom on Highway 50 and Prairie City Road, according to the Sacramento Metro Fire District.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Three people were injured in a two-vehicle crash in Folsom on Highway 50 and Prairie City Road, according to the Sacramento Metro Fire District.<\/p>\n<p>            Sacramento Metro Fire District<\/p>\n<p>Three people were injured in a two-vehicle crash on Sunday in Folsom, according to the Sacramento Metro Fire District.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred near Highway 50 and Prairie City Road, Sacramento Metro Fire Capt. Mark Nunez said.<\/p>\n<p>Fire crews arrived to find one vehicle overturned on its roof. Nunez said crews extricated a passenger, who was taken to a hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>The second vehicle caught fire after the crash, igniting a small grass fire along the highway. Crews said contained both the vehicle and vegetation fires, preventing further spread.<\/p>\n<p>Nunez said two people from the second vehicle were taken to a hospital, one in critical condition and one with moderate injuries.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/314568916\/\" 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_0021_PK_20260121_BUSS.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Nicole Buss\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/314568916\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nicole Buss<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Nicole Buss is The Sacramento Bee\u2019s Roseville\/Placer County watchdog reporter. She previously covered Placer County at Gold Country Media. Buss grew up in Lincoln and is a graduate of Sierra College and Arizona State University.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three people were injured in a two-vehicle crash in Folsom on Highway 50 and Prairie City Road, according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-298613","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\/298613","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=298613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}