{"id":507752,"date":"2026-10-25T20:16:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T20:16:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/507752\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T20:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T20:16:19","slug":"16-year-old-killed-in-atv-crash-in-madera-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/507752\/","title":{"rendered":"16-year-old killed in ATV crash in Madera County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/imag_fitted.jpeg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"Giovanni Martinez Placencia of Madera County was killed in an ATV crash on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026.\" alt=\"Giovanni Martinez Placencia of Madera County was killed in an ATV crash on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        Giovanni Martinez Placencia of Madera County was killed in an ATV crash on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>            GOFUNDME<\/p>\n<p>A 16-year-old died Thursday when his ATV crashed in Madera County.<\/p>\n<p>The California Highway Patrol said the crash happened just after 8 p.m. near Avenue 20 1\/2 and Road 20.<\/p>\n<p>CHP said Giovanni Martinez Placencia was riding a 2017 Polaris ATV south on a private dirt road, north of Avenue 20 1\/2. He crossed over Avenue 20 1\/2 and failed to notice a metal chain strung across the private road.<\/p>\n<p>The front of the ATV hit the chain and the teen was ejected. The ATV continued and crashed into an almond tree. Placencia, of Madera County, was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The crash remains under investigation. CHP said Placencia was not wearing a helmet.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/a-peaceful-farewell-for-giovanni\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">GoFundMe<\/a> was set up to help the family.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fresno Bee<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/profile\/218450935\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792959379_526_Anthony Galaviz headshot.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Anthony Galaviz\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fresnobee.com\/profile\/218450935\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Galaviz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Fresno Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Anthony Galaviz writes about breaking news\/sports for The Fresno Bee. He covers the Las Vegas Raiders, high schools, boxing, MMA and junior colleges. He\u2019s been with The Bee since 1997 and attended Fresno City College before graduating from Fresno State with a major in journalism and a minor in criminology.\u00a0<br \/>\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/fresnobee.com\/subscribe&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;&#009;\" style=\"color: #5169B8; text-transform: none;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Support my work with a digital subscription<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giovanni Martinez Placencia of Madera County was killed in an ATV crash on Thursday, Oct. 22, 2026. GOFUNDME&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-507752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507752","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=507752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}