{"id":408209,"date":"2026-07-22T17:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T17:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/408209\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T17:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T17:30:10","slug":"highway-104-closed-west-of-ione-after-deadly-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/408209\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway 104 closed west of Ione after deadly crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A three-vehicle crash on Highway 104 west of Ione left one person dead and sent a young child and two other drivers to hospitals Wednesday morning, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The California Highway Patrol said that, a little after 7 a.m. north of Five Mile Drive, a white Tesla was heading north when it crossed into the southbound lane. The Tesla then sideswiped a Honda Accord before continuing into oncoming traffic and hitting a Cadillac Escalade head-on.<\/p>\n<p>One person died in the crash, officers said. CHP did not specify which vehicle that person was in, and their identity has not been released.<\/p>\n<p>A 3-year-old passenger in the Tesla was taken to a hospital for evaluation. The extent of the child&#8217;s injuries was not immediately known.<\/p>\n<p>The drivers of the Honda and Cadillac were also hospitalized with minor to moderate injuries, CHP said.<\/p>\n<p>Exactly why the Tesla crossed into oncoming traffic is under investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Highway 104 was closed for about two hours.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A three-vehicle crash on Highway 104 west of Ione left one person dead and sent a young child&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408210,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[5578,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-408209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-amador-county-news","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408209","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=408209"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408209\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}