{"id":319354,"date":"2026-05-16T22:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/319354\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T22:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T22:32:10","slug":"sacramento-pedestrian-killed-by-her-vehicle-in-river-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/319354\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento pedestrian killed by her vehicle in River Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Pedestrian<\/p>\n

The Sacramento County Coroner\u2019s Office identified a 70-year-old pedestrian who died Friday<\/a> after being hit by her own vehicle in Sacramento.<\/p>\n

Sue Ann Rooney was hit while in a driveway on Sandburg Drive in Sacramento\u2019s River Park neighborhood, according to information from Sacramento Police Department spokesperson Officer Allison Smith and the Coroner\u2019s Office<\/a>. Rooney got out of the vehicle shortly before 7:30 p.m. without putting it in park, and it rolled backward and hit her, Smith said.<\/p>\n

After the vehicle rolled backwards, Smith said, it collided a parked vehicle across the street. Rooney, a Sacramento resident, was then taken to the hospital where she died, according to Smith.<\/p>\n

At least 20 people have died in 18 separate Sacramento vehicle incidents<\/a> so far this year, according to Sacramento Bee reporting.<\/p>\n

Related Stories from Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n


\n \"Profile
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Corey Schmidt<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n

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":"The Sacramento County Coroner\u2019s Office identified a 70-year-old pedestrian who died Friday after being hit by her own…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-319354","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\/319354","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=319354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}