{"id":170174,"date":"2025-08-23T22:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T22:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/170174\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T22:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T22:16:10","slug":"driver-killed-in-crash-after-sedan-strikes-light-pole-in-vista","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/170174\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver killed in crash after sedan strikes light pole in Vista"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0.top_.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/0.top_.jpg\" alt=\"A man stands to the left of a crashed light-colored sedan with its top smashed in. Image from a crash scene in Vista, CA.\" class=\"wp-image-340042\"  \/><\/a>An investigator examines the wrecked sedan after the fatal crash in Vista. (Photo courtesy of OnScene.TV)<\/p>\n<p>A motorist died early Saturday in a rollover crash at a Vista intersection and alcohol may have been a factor in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>At around 4:25 a.m. authorities received 911 calls about a single vehicle rollover at South Melrose and Shadowridge, according to OnScene.TV.<\/p>\n<p>When first responders arrived they found a trapped driver in a sedan with major damage. Firefighters attempted to extricate the person, but ultimately the motorist was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The crash investigation team from the <a href=\"https:\/\/sdsheriff.net\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a> is investigating.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities believe the vehicle had been traveling northbound, but then left the roadway, struck a light pole and rolled several times. <\/p>\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigator examines the wrecked sedan after the fatal crash in Vista. (Photo courtesy of OnScene.TV) A motorist&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":170175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,45638,3549,10860,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,18013],"class_list":{"0":"post-170174","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-fatal-collision","12":"tag-san-diego","13":"tag-san-diego-county-sheriffs-department","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa","21":"tag-vista"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115080395996639616","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170174","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=170174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}