{"id":102604,"date":"2025-07-29T17:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T17:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/102604\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T17:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T17:22:11","slug":"teenager-killed-in-chula-vista-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/102604\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager killed in Chula Vista car crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Chula-Vista-Police-From-Chula-Vista-Police-Twitter_X.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Chula-Vista-Police-From-Chula-Vista-Police-Twitter_X.jpg\" alt=\"Chula Vista Police\" class=\"wp-image-280239\"  \/><\/a>Chula Vista Police Department. File photo courtesy Chula Vista Police Department)<\/p>\n<p>A 17-year-old was killed in a car crash while allegedly street racing in Chula Vista, officials said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Police said in a statement that they responded at around 7:40 p.m. Monday to a Toyota Corolla and a Hyundai Elantra traveling at high speeds near the intersection of East Palomar St. and La Media Road.<\/p>\n<p>The teen driving the Corolla was heading east on East Palomar St. when he tried to make a turn and struck a curb before crashing into a palm tree, police said.<\/p>\n<p>First responders attempted lifesaving measures, but the teen was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The victim\u2019s name has not been released.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the driver of the Hyundai, a 28-year-old Chula Vista man,  remained at the scene. He reportedly had two children in the back seat, but no one in that car immediately reported any injuries, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the crash was under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Officials are asking anyone with information about the crash to call Chula Vista police at (619) 476-2428.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chula Vista Police Department. File photo courtesy Chula Vista Police Department) A 17-year-old was killed in a car&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":102605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,16214,45637,66596,3549,7264,66597,66598,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-102604","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-chula-vista","12":"tag-chula-vista-police-department","13":"tag-fatality-crash","14":"tag-san-diego","15":"tag-sandiego","16":"tag-street-racing","17":"tag-teenager-killed","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}