{"id":206239,"date":"2025-10-07T04:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T04:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/206239\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T04:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T04:34:11","slug":"helicopter-crashes-on-sacramento-freeway-at-least-3-critically-injured-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/206239\/","title":{"rendered":"Helicopter crashes on Sacramento freeway; at least 3 critically injured, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  Sacramento medical helicopter crash results in multiple victims <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3f68cd69-f7ff-4d2c-983e-214580f30e5e.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/sacramento\/video\/sacramento-medical-helicopter-crash-results-in-multiple-victims\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>          Sacramento medical helicopter crash results in multiple victims<\/p>\n<p>          12:15<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Officials are investigating after a medical helicopter crashed on a Sacramento freeway Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p>The Sacramento Fire Department said a REACH medical helicopter went down shortly after 7 p.m. on eastbound Highway 50 near 59th Street. Eastbound Highway 50 is under a full closure at 59th Street due to the crash, the California Highway Patrol said.<\/p>\n<p>Three crew members were on board and all were taken to area hospitals with critical injuries, Captain Justin Sylvia with Sacramento Fire   said.<\/p>\n<p>Two crew members were located in the roadway while one of the crew members was trapped under the helicopter when the first unit from the fire department arrived, Sylvia said. A fire captain and bystanders who offered help were able to lift the aircraft off the trapped crew member.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the crash remains under investigation. The Sacramento County Sheriff&#8217;s Office said it is assisting the CHP.<\/p>\n<p>A photo taken by a CBS Sacramento crew at the scene shows the helicopter upside down across multiple lanes covered in debris.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/3f68cd69-f7ff-4d2c-983e-214580f30e5e.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"sac hwy 50 helicopter crash \" height=\"465\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS Sacramento<\/p>\n<p>CBS Sacramento has reached out to the Federal Aviation Administration but has not immediately heard back.<\/p>\n<p>\n        More from CBS News\n      <\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/richard-ramos\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Richard  Ramos<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Richard Ramos is a web producer for CBS Sacramento who was born and raised in Sacramento. He graduated with a BA in Journalism from CSUS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sacramento medical helicopter crash results in multiple victims Sacramento medical helicopter crash results in multiple victims 12:15 Officials&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206240,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,16592,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-206239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-sacramento","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206239\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}