{"id":437354,"date":"2026-08-19T14:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T14:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/437354\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T14:47:07","slug":"one-driver-dead-another-with-major-injuries-after-suspected-dui-wrong-way-crash-on-hwy-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/437354\/","title":{"rendered":"One driver dead, another with major injuries after suspected DUI wrong-way crash on HWY 41"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A driver is dead after a wrong-way crash early Wednesday morning in Fresno County.<\/p>\n<p>CHP Fresno says officers were called out to Highway 41 near Elkhorn Avenue around 1:17 a.m. for reports of a crash.<\/p>\n<p>Initial investigations show that a driver in a Chevrolet Silverado was traveling the wrong way, southbound in the northbound lanes of Highway 41.<\/p>\n<p>The Silverado then hit a Ford F-150 traveling northbound. <\/p>\n<p>Both drivers had major injuries and were flown to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The wrong-way driver was later pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>Impairment is suspected as a possible contributing factor in this crash. <\/p>\n<p>The crash is still under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (FOX26) \u2014 A driver is dead after a wrong-way crash early Wednesday morning in Fresno&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-437354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437354","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=437354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}