A man between 30 and 40 years old was struck and killed by a vehicle Tuesday night near the intersection of Sunrise Boulevard and Winding Way in Fair Oaks, officials said. He was pronounced dead at the scene, and California Highway Patrol officers are now investigating exactly what happened.
CHP reported a crash at Sunrise Boulevard and Winding Way after receiving a call around 9:19 p.m. The pedestrian's identity has not been released, and CHP described him as between 30 and 40 years old. CHP said the vehicle was a light-colored sedan, possibly a silver or gray Nissan Altima, and characterized the crash as a hit-and-run.
The crash prompted a full closure of southbound Sunrise Boulevard between Winding Way and Fair Oaks Boulevard, per CHP. Traffic has been diverted onto Winding Way while officers work the scene, and as of the station's report there was no estimated time for the roadway to reopen.
A Stretch of Road With a Troubled History
This is not the first fatal pedestrian crash to hit this corner of Fair Oaks. In an earlier incident, a woman about 50 years old was struck and killed by a Ford Taurus while walking on Winding Way near Montcurve Boulevard, according to the same source's reporting; she had been walking with a 78-year-old man around noon who was not hit or hurt.
Nearby Madison Avenue has also seen tragedy. In a separate case reported by sacbee.com, a man was fatally struck one Sunday night just after 7 p.m. while trying to cross Madison Avenue east of Sunrise Boulevard, along the Citrus Heights border; that report said the unidentified man crossed outside a crosswalk and into the path of an eastbound car.
Part of a Wider Pattern Across Sacramento County
Tuesday night's death adds to a grim countywide tally. At least 60 pedestrians were killed in vehicle collisions across all of Sacramento County in 2025, according to the Sacramento County Coroner's Office and an analysis by sacbee.com. Within city limits alone, at least 32 people died in crashes on Sacramento streets that year, numbers that were memorialized at a vigil described in the same reporting.
The county’s pedestrian death toll was already high before 2025: the Sacramento County Coroner’s Office counted 51 pedestrians killed on county roadways in 2024. The Bee later reported at least 60 pedestrian deaths by Dec. 30, 2025, a higher count than the prior year even before that year had fully ended. The year-to-year figures put Tuesday’s death in a continuing countywide pattern, rather than an isolated local tragedy. The Bee reported the 2024 count, and its 2025 year-end review gave the later tally.
That reporting also noted that in Sacramento, most of the dead in fatal crashes are pedestrians or cyclists, not drivers. A majority of the city's fatal collisions in 2025 happened on what officials call the high-injury network, just 14% of Sacramento streets that account for 77% of severe crashes. Fruitridge Road alone averaged about three fatal crashes a year over the two years before that report, with a seventh crash killing a pedestrian there the same week the article was published.
Pedestrian safety is part of the broader road-safety discussion, but that context does not establish what caused this Fair Oaks crash.
No further details have been released about the man killed Tuesday night in Fair Oaks. CHP's investigation into the crash remains active, and officials have not said when Sunrise Boulevard will fully reopen to traffic.
