{"id":460721,"date":"2026-09-11T17:14:34","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T17:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/460721\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T17:14:34","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T17:14:34","slug":"driver-dies-after-crashing-into-tree-on-capital-city-freeway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/460721\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver dies after crashing into tree on Capital City Freeway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(FOX40.COM) \u2014 One person is dead and two others were injured after a vehicle crashed into a tree Wednesday night in Sacramento County, the California Highway Patrol said. <\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred at about 4:16 p.m. on Business 80 near Watt Avenue. The vehicle struck a tree, seriously injuring the driver and two passengers, CHP said. <\/p>\n<p>All three occupants were taken to a local hospital with major injuries. The driver was pronounced dead at the hospital, CHP said. <\/p>\n<p>A CHP spokesperson told FOX40 the collision appears to be the result of a medical emergency, and neither alcohol nor drugs are suspected to be factors in the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(FOX40.COM) \u2014 One person is dead and two others were injured after a vehicle crashed into a tree&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-460721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460721","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=460721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}