{"id":432430,"date":"2026-08-14T04:06:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T04:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/432430\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T04:06:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T04:06:18","slug":"person-drives-vehicle-off-cliff-while-arguing-with-partner-on-the-phone-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/432430\/","title":{"rendered":"Person drives vehicle off cliff while arguing with partner on the phone, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Kiana Raymondo Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/17934364_100325-kfsn-Kiana-Raymondo-bio-img.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, August 14, 2026 1:17AM<\/p>\n<p>A person was airlifted to the hospital Thursday afternoon after they intentionally drove off a cliff while on the phone near Table Mountain Casino, the California Highway Patrol says.<\/p>\n<p>David Peck<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO COUNTY (KFSN) &#8212; A person was airlifted to the hospital Thursday afternoon after they intentionally drove off a cliff near Table Mountain Casino, the California Highway Patrol says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The crash happened around 4:15 p.m. near Sky Harbour Drive and Millerton Road northeast of Table Mountain Casino.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to CHP, the driver was arguing on the phone with their partner when they intentionally drove off a cliff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The driver was airlifted to Community Regional Medical Center for treatment. Their condition is unknown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It is unclear if alcohol or drugs were factors in the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Fresno County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is investigating the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">This is a developing story. Stay with Action News for updates. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, August 14, 2026 1:17AM A person was airlifted to the hospital Thursday afternoon after they intentionally drove&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[171771,37518,157087,1701,171768,112,49387,14364,114,113,171770,86924,171769,87684,294],"class_list":["post-432430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-171771","tag-chp-investigation","tag-cliff-crash","tag-community-regional-medical-center","tag-driver-airlifted","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-county-crash","tag-fresno-county-sheriffs-office","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-intentional-crash","tag-millerton-road","tag-sky-harbour-drive","tag-table-mountain-casino","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432430","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=432430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}