{"id":481674,"date":"2026-10-01T15:00:42","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/481674\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T15:00:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:00:42","slug":"modesto-crash-leaves-1-dead-shuts-down-claus-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/481674\/","title":{"rendered":"Modesto crash leaves 1 dead, shuts down Claus Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A pedestrian died after being hit by a vehicle in Modesto early Thursday morning, prompting a closure along Claus Road.<\/p>\n<p>Modesto police said officers were investigating the crash near Claus Road and East Orangeburg Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene. Police have not released any other details about the person.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Claus Road is closed southbound at Briggsmore Avenue and northbound at Scenic Drive while officers investigate, police said. The road is expected to remain closed for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n<p>No other details about the crash have been released.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pedestrian died after being hit by a vehicle in Modesto early Thursday morning, prompting a closure along&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[15563,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-481674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-modesto-news","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481674","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=481674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}