{"id":466043,"date":"2026-09-16T22:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T22:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/466043\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T22:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T22:06:08","slug":"overturned-tanker-spills-fuel-on-w-x-freeway-in-sacramento","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/466043\/","title":{"rendered":"Overturned tanker spills fuel on W-X Freeway in Sacramento"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Emergency<\/p>\n

Emergency crews respond Wednesday to an overturned tanker truck on westbound Highway 50 near 15th Street in Sacramento. The crash spilled fuel and prompted lane and ramp closures on the W-X portion of the freeway.<\/p>\n

Caltrans District 3<\/p>\n

An overturned tanker truck spilled fuel Wednesday on the westbound Highway 50 portion of the W-X Freeway in Sacramento, prompting a hazardous materials response and closing several lanes and ramps, according to the California Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n

The crash was reported about 11:20 a.m. near the 10th Street off-ramp and involved the tanker and two other vehicles, CHP logs showed. The tanker overturned and began leaking fuel onto the freeway.<\/p>\n

The driver was injured and taken to UC Davis Medical Center, according to CHP.<\/p>\n

Sacramento Fire Department crews declared a hazardous materials incident and requested that the three right lanes of westbound the freeway, signed Highway 50, be closed.<\/p>\n

By about 12:40 p.m., authorities were shutting down the connector from the southbound Capital City Freeway connector at Highway 99 onto the W-X. The 16th Street off-ramp was also closed.<\/p>\n

CHP issued a SigAlert and advised motorists traveling from the Roseville area to avoid Highway 50 and consider Interstates 80 and 5 as alternate routes.<\/p>\n

Authorities had not provided an estimated time for the lanes to reopen.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story; check back with sacbee.com<\/a> for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Emergency crews respond Wednesday to an overturned tanker truck on westbound Highway 50 near 15th Street in Sacramento.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-466043","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\/466043","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=466043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}