{"id":501289,"date":"2026-10-19T18:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T18:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/501289\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T18:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T18:56:08","slug":"oakland-fatal-crash-on-highway-24-one-dead-one-dui-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/501289\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland: Fatal crash on Highway 24; one dead, one DUI arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OAKLAND \u2014 A driver died and another driver was arrested on suspicion of felony DUI following a crash on an East Bay highway Sunday, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The wreck happened about 4 p.m. on westbound state Highway 24 just east of the 27th Street exit, where Interstate 980 begins the transition to I-880, CHP spokeperson Ofcr. Cindy Ramirez said. It was one of <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7ShJJ-T8zE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">two fatal crashes<\/a> on East Bay highways within a 24-hour period.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting wreckage caused the CHP to close all but the far left lane on the four-line highway.<\/p>\n<p>A driver of a Honda sedan died at the scene, Ramirez said. Authorities identified her as 80-year-old Saraswathi Devi. They did not list a residence.\n<\/p>\n<p>CHP officers arrested the driver of a Toyota Camry, Ramirez said. The CHP did not immediately release the identity of the driver, pending the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The Camry driver suffered injuries the CHP termed minor.<\/p>\n<p>The three left lanes of Hwy 24 going west were closed until about 8 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Please check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OAKLAND \u2014 A driver died and another driver was arrested on suspicion of felony DUI following a crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":501290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[8296,2514,143,145,144,11864,194189],"class_list":["post-501289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-fatal-crash","tag-highway-24","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news","tag-one-dead","tag-one-dui-arrest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501289","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=501289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/501290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}