{"id":433251,"date":"2026-08-14T23:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T23:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/433251\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T23:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T23:50:10","slug":"otter-hit-by-car-in-vacaville-expected-to-recover-wildlife-rescue-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/433251\/","title":{"rendered":"Otter hit by car in Vacaville expected to recover, wildlife rescue says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An otter hit by a car in Vacaville on Friday is expected to recover after being treated for head trauma, a local wildlife rescue said.<\/p>\n<p>The animal was struck near Leisure Town Road and Foxborough Road, an area Solano Wildlife Rescue and Education Center says is known for otters being hit by vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are a lot of small waterways that the otters travel through,&#8221; the rescue center said on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The otter was treated for head trauma, including swelling around the brain. He also had a small abrasion on his chin but avoided any broken bones.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/otter-hit-by-car-in-vacaville-solano-wildlife-1.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"otter-hit-by-car-in-vacaville-solano-wildlife-1.jpg \" height=\"620\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Solano Wildlife Rescue and Education Center<\/p>\n<p>Late Friday afternoon, the rescue told CBS News Sacramento that the otter was stable.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As soon as the swelling goes down around his brain, we think he will be ready to go,&#8221; Solano Wildlife said.<\/p>\n<p>The organization estimates that could happen in about seven to 10 days.<\/p>\n<p>Solano Wildlife initially asked the public for donations to help pay for the otter&#8217;s medical care and rehabilitation. The rescue said it is continuing to care for the otter while he recovers.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An otter hit by a car in Vacaville on Friday is expected to recover after being treated for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122,2720,6799],"class_list":["post-433251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-solano-county","tag-vacaville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433251","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=433251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}