{"id":475005,"date":"2026-09-25T05:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T05:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/475005\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T05:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T05:42:09","slug":"driver-finds-body-along-highway-99-in-modesto-area-chp-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/475005\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver finds body along Highway 99 in Modesto area, CHP says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was found dead on the shoulder of Highway 99 near Modesto on Thursday, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The California Highway Patrol&#8217;s Modesto office said the body was found by a passing motorist on the shoulder of northbound Highway 99 near Hatch Road.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said the circumstances surrounding the man&#8217;s death remain under investigation and that he does not appear to have been struck by a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Two right lanes of northbound Highway 99 were closed north of Hatch Road while investigators worked the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The CHP has not released the man&#8217;s identity or additional details about how he died.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was found dead on the shoulder of Highway 99 near Modesto on Thursday, officials said. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6881,121,123,122,14770],"class_list":["post-475005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-body-found","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-stanislaus-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475005","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=475005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}