{"id":480876,"date":"2026-09-30T21:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T21:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/480876\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T21:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T21:39:09","slug":"rancho-cordova-area-head-on-crash-kills-10-year-old-seriously-injures-2-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/480876\/","title":{"rendered":"Rancho Cordova-area head-on crash kills 10-year-old, seriously injures 2 others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 10-year-old child has died after a head-on crash near Rancho Cordova that also left two other people seriously injured Wednesday morning, CHP said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers said the child was a student at Mather Heights Elementary School. CHP had initially said the 10-year-old was hospitalized in critical condition after the crash. <\/p>\n<p>The crash happened just after 8 a.m. on Mather Boulevard south of Douglas Road.<\/p>\n<p>According to CHP, a gray Hyundai Elantra was traveling south when it crossed the double yellow lines and struck a Chevrolet Equinox head-on in the northbound lane.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said the Hyundai may have been trying to pass a slower-moving vehicle, though CHP has not confirmed that as the cause.<\/p>\n<p>Three people were taken to hospitals with major injuries. Two were initially listed in critical condition, including the child who later died. <\/p>\n<p>Mather Boulevard was closed in both directions between Douglas and Alert roads for several hours before reopening shortly after 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 10-year-old child has died after a head-on crash near Rancho Cordova that also left two other people&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[2727,121,357,123,122],"class_list":["post-480876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-rancho-cordova","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-county","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480876","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=480876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}