{"id":356638,"date":"2026-06-11T19:17:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/356638\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T19:17:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:17:12","slug":"pedestrian-killed-after-being-struck-by-semi-in-fresno","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/356638\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedestrian killed after being struck by semi in Fresno"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pedestrian was killed Wednesday when he was struck by a semi near downtown Fresno.<\/p>\n<p>Officers with the Fresno Police Department initially responded to the scene at 3:30 p.m. at the Highway 99\/Fresno Street off-ramp.<\/p>\n<p>The California Highway Patrol took over the investigation and said a Freightliner was stopped at a red light traffic signal in the No. 1 lane of the off-ramp while a man was walking west across Fresno Street within the marked crosswalk.<\/p>\n<p>As the traffic signal turned green, the pedestrian was positioned in front of another stopped semi and was not visible to the driver of the Freightliner, which went forward and struck the pedestrian. The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Alcohol and drugs are not believed to be factors in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fresno Bee<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/profile\/218450935\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781205432_722_Anthony Galaviz headshot.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Anthony Galaviz\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/profile\/218450935\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Galaviz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Fresno Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Anthony Galaviz writes about sports for The Fresno Bee. He covers the Las Vegas Raiders, high schools, boxing, MMA and junior colleges. He\u2019s been with The Bee since 1997 and attended Fresno City College before graduating from Fresno State with a major in journalism and a minor in criminology.<br \/>\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/fresnobee.com\/subscribe&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;\" style=\"color: #5169B8; text-transform: none;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Support my work with a digital subscription<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pedestrian was killed Wednesday when he was struck by a semi near downtown Fresno. Officers with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-356638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356638","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=356638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}