{"id":325850,"date":"2026-05-21T06:59:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T06:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/325850\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T06:59:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T06:59:26","slug":"lodi-highway-99-crash-kills-2-fleeing-driver-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/325850\/","title":{"rendered":"Lodi Highway 99 crash kills 2; fleeing driver arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Two people were killed and a big-rig driver was arrested Tuesday in a crash involving four vehicles on Highway 99 in south Lodi, officials said.<\/p>\n

The collision was reported about 12:20 p.m. on northbound Highway 99 near the Harney Lane off-ramp, according to the California Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n

A 24-year-old truck driver was arrested on suspicion of felony vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence and felony hit-and-run resulting in death or injury, according to the CHP and San Joaquin County jail records. He also was booked on suspicion of misdemeanor resisting or obstructing a peace officer after trying to flee the scene, according to CHP Stockton office spokesperson Officer Itzel Aguilar.<\/p>\n

Bail was set at $185,000, and he was scheduled to appear in court at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Several other people involved in the crash were taken to hospitals for treatment, Aguilar said.<\/p>\n

It was not immediately clear whether alcohol or drugs played a role in the collision, Aguilar said.<\/p>\n

All three lanes of northbound Highway 99 in the area and the Harney Lane off-ramp were closed for about three hours after the incident, according to a social media post from Caltrans<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This story was originally published May 19, 2026 at 5:38 PM.<\/p>\n

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Sean Campbell is a 2025 and 2026 summer reporting intern covering sports and news at The Sacramento Bee. Campbell is studying journalism at USC and serves as a news editor at the student-run Daily Trojan. He previously covered sports for the Davis Enterprise.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people were killed and a big-rig driver was arrested Tuesday in a crash involving four vehicles on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-325850","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\/325850","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=325850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}