{"id":209676,"date":"2025-09-08T07:48:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T07:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/209676\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T07:48:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T07:48:13","slug":"5-year-old-on-scooter-hit-by-suspected-drunken-driver-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/209676\/","title":{"rendered":"5-year-old on scooter hit by suspected drunken driver \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 5-year-old girl was critically injured Saturday afternoon near Liberty Station when a woman suspected of driving drunk drove onto a closed park pathway, hit a steel bench and then struck the child as she rode a scooter, police said.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego police said they arrested the 21-year-old driver, who was suspected of driving a 2018 BMW on the pathway off Laning Road south of North Harbor Drive shortly after 4:30 p.m. The path is near a Navy base, police said.<\/p>\n<p>After the vehicle hit the bench and the child, the car slammed into a tree, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The injured girl was transported to a hospital with life-threatening head injuries, police said.<\/p>\n<p>A police spokesperson said traffic officers are handling the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Originally Published: September 7, 2025 at 1:26 PM PDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 5-year-old girl was critically injured Saturday afternoon near Liberty Station when a woman suspected of driving drunk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":203104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,5295,1370,728,50,14524,14525,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-209676","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-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-point-loma-ob-monthly","16":"tag-point-loma-ob-monthly-news","17":"tag-san-diego","18":"tag-sandiego","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115167579547856611","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209676","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=209676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}