{"id":444711,"date":"2026-08-27T03:20:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T03:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/444711\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T03:20:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T03:20:33","slug":"elk-grove-tesla-driver-killed-in-fiery-collision-with-tractor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/444711\/","title":{"rendered":"Elk Grove Tesla driver killed in fiery collision with tractor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The driver of a Tesla sedan died in a fiery collision with a tractor in Elk Grove early Wednesday morning, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened at about 5:38 a.m. on eastbound Kammerer Road in southern Elk Grove. The California Highway Patrol said the grey four-door sedan hit the back of the tractor, which was hauling grapes on Kammerer Road just east of Lent Road in southern Elk Grove.<\/p>\n<p>The crash caused the Tesla to catch fire, and Cosumnes Community Services District firefighters arrived to extinguish the fire. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene, the CHP said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the tractor didn&#8217;t report any injuries, officers.<\/p>\n<p>There was no word on whether impairment was a factor in the crash or whether the Tesla had been in self-driving mode before the collision.<\/p>\n<p>The driver&#8217;s identity was withheld until his family members were notified.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The driver of a Tesla sedan died in a fiery collision with a tractor in Elk Grove early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[4106,8296,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-444711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-elk-grove","tag-fatal-crash","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444711","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=444711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}