{"id":406649,"date":"2026-07-21T15:14:59","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/406649\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T15:14:59","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:14:59","slug":"placer-county-dui-suspect-sideswipes-truck-nearly-hits-deputy-and-pedestrians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/406649\/","title":{"rendered":"Placer County DUI suspect sideswipes truck, nearly hits deputy and pedestrians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Placer County sheriff&#8217;s deputy jumped out of the way of a pickup that came within inches of hitting him during a hit-and-run investigation in Loomis, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The close call happened around 10:20 p.m. Friday at Taylor and Horseshoe Bar roads.<\/p>\n<p>According to the sheriff&#8217;s office, deputies were investigating an earlier hit-and-run and had moved a pickup involved onto the shoulder. Its three occupants were standing on a nearby sidewalk while the deputy photographed the scene.<\/p>\n<p>As the deputy stood along the shoulder, another pickup sideswiped the parked truck and nearly struck him, according to the Placer County Sheriff&#8217;s Office. He jumped out of the way and was not injured.<\/p>\n<p>None of the other three people standing nearby were hurt, either.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said the pickup continued for about a block along Taylor Road, nearly striking several other pedestrians before crashing into a tree.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was arrested and booked into the Placer County Jail on suspicion of hit-and-run, DUI and driving under the influence with prior convictions.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities did not release the driver&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Placer County sheriff&#8217;s deputy jumped out of the way of a pickup that came within inches of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[11077,10289,10288,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-406649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-dui","tag-loomis","tag-placer-county","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406649","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=406649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}