{"id":424831,"date":"2026-08-05T21:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T21:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/424831\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T21:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T21:36:13","slug":"central-california-crash-leaves-chp-officer-injured-during-u-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/424831\/","title":{"rendered":"Central California crash leaves CHP officer injured during U-turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A CHP officer was airlifted to a hospital after a tractor-trailer struck a patrol pickup Wednesday morning in rural Merced County, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened around 7:24 a.m. on Highway 59 north of Turlock Road, east of Turlock and north of Merced.<\/p>\n<p>According to a preliminary investigation, the officer was driving south in a marked CHP pickup and slowed while attempting to make a U-turn to travel north.<\/p>\n<p>As the patrol vehicle entered the northbound lanes, an oncoming tractor-trailer struck its right side, CHP said.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews freed the officer from the pickup before flying him to a local hospital with injuries believed to be non-life-threatening. The tractor-trailer driver was not injured.<\/p>\n<p>The CHP Central Division Multidisciplinary Accident Investigation Team is investigating the crash. The cause has not been determined, but investigators do not believe alcohol or drugs were factors.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who witnessed the crash or has information is asked to call the CHP investigation team at (559) 603-7740.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A CHP officer was airlifted to a hospital after a tractor-trailer struck a patrol pickup Wednesday morning in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300997,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[19710,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-424831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-merced-county","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424831","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=424831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}