{"id":339167,"date":"2026-05-30T15:07:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T15:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/339167\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T15:07:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T15:07:31","slug":"corvette-flattened-in-violent-rollover-crash-on-friant-road-north-of-fresno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/339167\/","title":{"rendered":"Corvette flattened in violent rollover crash on Friant Road north of Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A driver sustained serious injuries on Thursday after crashing on Friant Road in Fresno County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the California Highway Patrol, the crash happened just after 3 p.m., just north of Bluff View south of the community of Friant and Millerton Lake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The CHP said the driver in the Corvette Stingray was speeding before losing control on the curve, which caused the vehicle to slide \u201chundreds of feet\u201d before overturning.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The driver was taken to a local hospital. CHP said he sustained life-threatening injuries; his latest status was not known.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">CHP said the driver had a seatbelt on and the crash did not result from a DUI.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThis horrific crash is a stark reminder of those dangers. Excessive speed and loss of control caused the vehicle to slide hundreds of feet before overturning, resulting in serious injuries,\u201d CHP wrote on social media.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"The aftermath of a violent crash that flattened a vehicle on Thursday, May 28, 2026 on Friant Road, just north of Bluff View in Fresno County.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"808\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/60bf0430449c58ca913be63dfdaf84f3.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The aftermath of a violent crash that flattened a vehicle on Thursday, May 28, 2026 on Friant Road, just north of Bluff View in Fresno County.<\/p>\n<p>(CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver sustained serious injuries on Thursday after crashing on Friant Road in Fresno County. According to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[859,139814,112,622,114,113,50418,3696,39957,60037],"class_list":["post-339167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-california-highway-patrol","tag-corvette-stingray","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-county","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-friant","tag-friant-road","tag-millerton-lake","tag-serious-injuries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339167","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=339167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}