{"id":412118,"date":"2026-07-25T16:53:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T16:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/412118\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T16:53:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T16:53:12","slug":"49ers-hc-kyle-shanahan-involved-in-a-car-accident-chris-foerster-to-handle-hc-responsibilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/412118\/","title":{"rendered":"49ers HC Kyle Shanahan involved in a car accident; Chris Foerster to handle HC responsibilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The San Francisco 49ers issued a statement on Saturday after head coach Kyle Shanahan was involved in a car accident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">According to ESPN\u2019s Adam Schefter, Shanahan broke his nose, three ribs, and his hand, and needed over 40 stitches in his face. Shanahan also suffered a severe concussion after colliding with an SUV near his northern California home, according to Schefter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">According to the statement issued by the team, Shanahan\u2019s injuries were non-life-threatening:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1bij9g78 _1mt21p01\">\u201cSan Francisco 49ers Head Coach Kyle Shanahan was involved in a car accident last week where he suffered non-life-threatening injuries. Coach Shanahan will participate in team activities on a limited basis at the start of training camp while he recovers. Coach Shanahan and the 49ers organization would like to sincerely thank all first responders involved for their efforts and care. Assistant Head Coach Chris Foerster along with team coordinators will handle head coach responsibilities during this period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Schefter tweeted that Shanahan informed the coaching staff of the accident on Tuesday, while the players are slowly getting the news after the car accident was confirmed today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Schefter <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/adamschefter\/status\/2081049764078997961?s=46\" rel=\"nofollow\">added<\/a> that paramedics took Shanahan to the local hospital, where he spent much of the day before being released. The other driver was not injured, according to Palo Alto Lieutenant Nicholas Martinez.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">There were no drugs or alcohol involved, per Martinez. Neither driver was cited for the collision, while both were cooperative with the police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The San Francisco 49ers issued a statement on Saturday after head coach Kyle Shanahan was involved in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,8376,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-412118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-49ers-news","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412118","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=412118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}