{"id":332261,"date":"2026-05-26T00:44:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T00:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/332261\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T00:44:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T00:44:16","slug":"traffic-fatality-on-capital-city-freeway-near-marconi-ave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/332261\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic fatality on Capital City Freeway near Marconi Ave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779419116_SAC20generic20police20still20chyron20frame.png\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"\" alt=\"Police tape at crime scene\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A motorist was killed Monday morning along the Capital City Freeway after their vehicle crashed into a pole down an embankment next to the Marconi Avenue exit.<\/p>\n<p>California Highway Patrol officers closed a lane of traffic at the Marconi Curve, a section of freeway that divides Sacramento and Arden Arcade, after the crash, which was reported around 5 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>CHP logs indicated the vehicle, described as a blue Dodge SUV, went 10 to 15 feet down an embankment after leaving the off-ramp.<\/p>\n<p>The Sacramento County Coroner\u2019s Office was expected to identify the driver once next of kin are notified of the the death.<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published May 25, 2026 at 12:54 PM.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/263094893\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20220812_LS_Stephen_Hobbs_016a.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Stephen Hobbs\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/263094893\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stephen Hobbs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Stephen Hobbs is an enterprise reporter for The Sacramento Bee\u2019s Capitol Bureau. He has worked for newspapers in Colorado, Florida and South Carolina.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A motorist was killed Monday morning along the Capital City Freeway after their vehicle crashed into a pole&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327209,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-332261","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\/332261","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=332261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}