{"id":319826,"date":"2026-05-17T07:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T07:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/319826\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T07:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T07:59:08","slug":"3-dead-after-driver-hits-cars-and-pedestrians-in-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/319826\/","title":{"rendered":"3 dead after driver hits cars and pedestrians in Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The crash happened just before 11:15 p.m. near 85th Avenue and International Boulevard, the Oakland Fire Department said.<\/p>\n<p>Three people were pronounced dead at the scene. Three others were taken to local hospitals, including two in critical condition and one in serious condition.<\/p>\n<p>Two more people were awaiting medical transport with minor injuries, including a person the fire officials described as the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities urged people to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p>The Oakland Police Department did not immediately provide additional details, including the identities of those killed, the ages of the victims, or what led up to the crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Oakland\u2019s traffic fatality dashboard showed six traffic deaths from January through April, including three pedestrians, before any update from Saturday night\u2019s crash.<\/p>\n<p>The crash follows another recent mass-injury pedestrian collision in Oakland. On May 2, seven <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/article\/oakland-pedestrians-injured-driver-flees-22238277.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">people were injured<\/a> after a driver struck pedestrians in the city\u2019s uptown neighborhood, according to police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The crash happened just before 11:15 p.m. near 85th Avenue and International Boulevard, the Oakland Fire Department said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[184,7,723,332,143,145,144],"class_list":["post-319826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-bay-area","tag-california","tag-crime","tag-east-bay","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319826","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=319826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}