{"id":341205,"date":"2026-06-01T09:58:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T09:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/341205\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T09:58:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T09:58:44","slug":"update-woman-dies-in-hit-and-run-crash-at-busy-fresno-intersection-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/341205\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Woman dies in hit-and-run crash at busy Fresno intersection, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Fresno Bee;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Fresno Bee\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"266\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/os\/creatr-uploaded-images\/2021-12\/37ec2ce0-5e8c-11ec-b1fb-0027018c0b4f.jpeg\"\/><\/a>Sat, May 30, 2026 at 2:21 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"976\" height=\"732\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_fresno_bee_mcclatchy_299\/bfca20cee443f21fd0114ead36e1b5c8.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Police blocked off Chestnut and Belmont Avenues after a woman was hit by a vehicle on Friday, May 29, 2026.<\/p>\n<p> (Anthony Galaviz\/agalaviz@fresnobee.com)<\/p>\n<p>A woman later died after she was hit by a hit-and-run vehicle in Fresno on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened at 10:30 p.m. at Belmont and Chestnut avenues.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, they found a 40-year-old woman lying in the street suffering from severe injuries to her upper torso and head, Fresno Police Lt. Michael Pierce said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the woman was unconscious and not breathing. Officers began CPR until fire and EMS arrived on scene and took over first aid procedures.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was taken to Community Regional Medical Center where she was is in critical condition. She later died from her injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Pierce said on Saturday the vehicle is still outstanding.<\/p>\n<p>Belmont and Chestnut was closed for several hours as the Collision Reconstruction Unit investigated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sat, May 30, 2026 at 2:21 PM UTC Police blocked off Chestnut and Belmont Avenues after a woman&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1701,112,114,113,3695,96972,70503],"class_list":["post-341205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-community-regional-medical-center","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-fresno-police","tag-michael-pierce","tag-upper-torso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341205","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=341205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}