{"id":489290,"date":"2026-10-08T14:56:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T14:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/489290\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T14:56:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T14:56:29","slug":"modesto-dirt-bike-crash-on-dry-creek-trail-kills-66-year-old-rider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/489290\/","title":{"rendered":"Modesto dirt bike crash on Dry Creek Trail kills 66-year-old rider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 66-year-old dirt bike rider died after a head-on crash with another rider on a Modesto trail late Wednesday night, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened just before 10 p.m. on the Dry Creek Trail behind Edgebrook Drive.<\/p>\n<p>Modesto police said a group was riding dirt bikes between Moose Park and Thousand Oaks Park when two riders crashed head-on in the darkness.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses had begun CPR before officers arrived and took over lifesaving efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The 66-year-old rider was taken to a hospital, where he later died. His name has not been released.<\/p>\n<p>A second rider, a 48-year-old man, was hospitalized with moderate injuries.<\/p>\n<p>The crash remains under investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 66-year-old dirt bike rider died after a head-on crash with another rider on a Modesto trail late&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":489291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[15563,121,123,122],"class_list":["post-489290","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\/489290","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=489290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}