{"id":329783,"date":"2026-05-23T21:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T21:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/329783\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T21:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T21:46:09","slug":"two-pedestrians-killed-in-sacramento-area-traffic-incidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/329783\/","title":{"rendered":"Two pedestrians killed in Sacramento-area traffic incidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779473352_SAC20pedestrian20train20fatality20vehicle20vs20person20chyron20still20frame.png\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"\" alt=\"Pedestrian fatality\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Sacramento County Coroner\u2019s Office reported two pedestrians were killed Friday in separate collisions.<\/p>\n<p>A 28-year-old man was hit by a vehicle in the southbound lane of the Capital City Freeway north of El Camino Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>That same day, a 77-year-old man was fatally struck by a vehicle in the eastbound lane of Florin Road, according to the Coroner\u2019s Office, east of Florin Perkins Road in south Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p>Neither victim\u2019s name had been released by the coroner as of early Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 80 people have died in Sacramento County so far this year from traffic incidents, according to data the Sacramento County Coroner\u2019s Office, of whom more than 25 have been pedestrians.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/315233098\/\" 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_8021_CoreySchmidt_HA_260409.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Corey Schmidt\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/315233098\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corey Schmidt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>            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 reported two pedestrians were killed Friday in separate collisions. A 28-year-old man was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-329783","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\/329783","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=329783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}