{"id":368834,"date":"2026-06-21T03:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T03:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/368834\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T03:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T03:01:10","slug":"motorcyclist-killed-in-sacramentos-willowcreek-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/368834\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist killed in Sacramento\u2019s Willowcreek neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781632933_SAC20roadway20fatality20killed20highway20still20chyron20frame.png\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"\" alt=\"Roadway fatality\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/experience.arcgis.com\/experience\/8fbbafb14a464bc79bdee22543f0b760\/page\/MVA-Accidents\">43-year-old man died Friday<\/a> after a crash in Sacramento\u2019s Willowcreek neighborhood, police and coroner\u2019s officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The Sacramento County Coroner\u2019s Office in an online dashboard reported the man was driving a motorcycle when the incident took place. The solo motorcycle crash took place around 5:30 p.m. near the intersection of West River Drive and Orchard Lane, which is about two blocks west of Orchard Park.<\/p>\n<p>Sacramento Police Department spokesperson Officer Anthony Gamble said the man was taken to a hospital where he later died.<\/p>\n<p>As of Saturday morning, the man\u2019s identity had not been released by the coroner.<\/p>\n<p>He is at least the third motorcyclist to die in a crash this week in the Sacramento area, according to the Coroner\u2019s Office dashboard.<\/p>\n<p>A 23-year-old man died Tuesday after a crash on Interstate 80 near Norwood Avenue, according to the dashboard. On Sunday, a 19-year-old man died at the intersection of Jefferson Boulevard and 15th Street in West Sacramento.<\/p>\n<p class=\"summary gray\">This story was originally published June 20, 2026 at 10:29 AM.<\/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\/06\/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":"A 43-year-old man died Friday after a crash in Sacramento\u2019s Willowcreek neighborhood, police and coroner\u2019s officials said. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-368834","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\/368834","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=368834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}