{"id":485868,"date":"2026-10-05T16:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T16:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/485868\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T16:10:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T16:10:14","slug":"modesto-dui-crash-on-highway-99-leaves-1-dead-chp-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/485868\/","title":{"rendered":"Modesto DUI crash on Highway 99 leaves 1 dead, CHP says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A San Francisco man was arrested on suspicion of DUI and vehicular manslaughter after a crash on Highway 99 in Modesto left another driver dead Sunday evening, the California Highway Patrol said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened just after 6 p.m. on northbound Highway 99 north of Carpenter Road.<\/p>\n<p>Officers said 22-year-old John Rojasnaranjo was driving a Chevrolet pickup when he changed lanes and hit a GMC pickup traveling beside him.<\/p>\n<p>The GMC driver lost control and overturned near Sisk Road. CHP said the driver was partially ejected and died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Rojasnaranjo and a passenger in his pickup were not injured.<\/p>\n<p>CHP said Rojasnaranjo was arrested on suspicion of DUI causing injury or death, vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated and driving with a suspended license.<\/p>\n<p>The GMC driver has not been identified.<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Francisco man was arrested on suspicion of DUI and vehicular manslaughter after a crash on Highway&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[11077,1825,15563,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-485868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-dui","tag-highway-99","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\/485868","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=485868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}