A 1-year-old girl died and her father was injured after a vehicle struck them at St. Mary Cemetery & Funeral Center in Sacramento on Sunday, November 1, 2026, shortly before 5 p.m. The crash allegedly happened during a Día de los Muertos gathering at the cemetery. The girl was taken to a hospital, where she later died, and her father was hospitalized with injuries.
According to CBS Sacramento, the Sacramento Police Department detained the driver, a 50-year-old Sacramento man, and he was booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail on multiple felony counts including DUI, hit-and-run and vehicular manslaughter. Yahoo News reports that he allegedly stayed at the scene at first and then tried to flee before officers detained him, that bail was set at $470,000, and that detectives are investigating the crash as a hit-and-run. These details come from news reports, and the investigation is ongoing.
