{"id":464241,"date":"2026-09-15T07:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T07:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/464241\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T07:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T07:36:14","slug":"driver-killed-after-vehicle-overturns-catches-fire-in-rancho-cordova","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/464241\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver killed after vehicle overturns, catches fire in Rancho Cordova"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A driver was killed after a vehicle overturned and caught fire on Hazel Avenue in Rancho Cordova on Monday night, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened shortly after 10:30 p.m. on the Hazel Avenue bridge over the American River. The California Highway Patrol&#8217;s East Sacramento office said the vehicle became fully engulfed in flames. The driver was trapped inside.<\/p>\n<p>CHP officers attempted to rescue the driver, but the fire was too intense and the driver died as a result of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses reported that speed may have been a factor in the crash, the CHP said.<\/p>\n<p>It was not immediately known whether drugs or alcohol played a role.<\/p>\n<p>All southbound lanes of Hazel Avenue were blocked following the crash as emergency crews worked at the scene and authorities investigated.<\/p>\n<p>The driver&#8217;s identity has not been released.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A driver was killed after a vehicle overturned and caught fire on Hazel Avenue in Rancho Cordova on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2727,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-464241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-rancho-cordova","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464241","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=464241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}