{"id":314988,"date":"2026-05-14T06:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T06:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/314988\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T06:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T06:24:16","slug":"pedestrian-struck-and-killed-on-highway-41-south-of-jensen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/314988\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian struck and killed on Highway 41 south of Jensen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was killed early Wednesday after walking directly into the path of traffic on Highway 41 south of Fresno.<\/p>\n<p>According to California Highway Patrol, the man was on the west shoulder of the highway just south of Jensen Avenue around 1 a.m. when he tried to cross the road and was hit by an oncoming vehicle. He was pronounced dead by emergency medical personnel on the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The victim has yet to be identified.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the car was \u201cunable to brake or take evasive action prior to the collision,\u201d the CHP said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver, 83, remained at the scene and cooperated with the investigation. He was not under the influence of drugs or alcohol, CHP said.<\/p>\n<p>CHP said it has not been determined whether the deceased man was under the influence at the time. The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published May 13, 2026 at 12:03 PM.<\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/profile\/218451290\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Tehee<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Fresno Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Joshua Tehee covers breaking news for The Fresno Bee, writing on a wide range of topics from police, politics and weather, to arts and entertainment in the Central Valley.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was killed early Wednesday after walking directly into the path of traffic on Highway 41 south&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-314988","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\/314988","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=314988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}