{"id":28250,"date":"2025-06-30T22:32:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T22:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/28250\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T22:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T22:32:10","slug":"passenger-killed-in-suspected-wrong-way-lemon-grove-dui-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/28250\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger killed in suspected wrong-way Lemon Grove DUI Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/0.sher3_.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/0.sher3_.jpg\" alt=\"Law enforcement patrol\" class=\"wp-image-223556\"  \/><\/a>Sheriff deputy\u2019s patch. (Photo courtesy of OnScene.TV)<\/p>\n<p>A 28-year-old DUI suspect was recovering in a hospital Monday from injuries he suffered when the pickup truck he was driving against traffic on a thoroughfare near the intersection of state Route 94 and SR-125 collided head-on with an SUV, fatally injuring a passenger in the second vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was heading west on the eastbound side of Broadway in Lemon Grove when the Chevrolet Silverado he was driving crashed into the oncoming Ford Explorer just east of Sweetwater Road shortly before 8 p.m. Sunday, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdsheriff.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies arrived to find the suspect standing outside his badly damage vehicle with \u201ca strong odor of alcohol emanating from his breath and person,\u201d Sgt. William Price said.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics took the driver of the Explorer and one of two people who had been riding in it to a hospital, where the latter was pronounced dead. The victim\u2019s name was withheld pending family notification.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring the initial investigation, two open alcoholic beverages were found within the pickup, and a canister of nitrous oxide was located on the ground (alongside the) truck,\u201d Price said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was arrested on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter and driving while intoxicated and transported to a trauma center.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suspect\u2019s identification is being withheld, as the investigation is still ongoing,\u201d the sergeant said Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sheriff deputy\u2019s patch. (Photo courtesy of OnScene.TV) A 28-year-old DUI suspect was recovering in a hospital Monday from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,12424,1582,276,24347,7923,24348,5022,24349,3549,24350,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,24351],"class_list":{"0":"post-28250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arrest","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-dui-suspect","13":"tag-fatality","14":"tag-head-on-collision","15":"tag-investigation","16":"tag-lemon-grove","17":"tag-san-diego","18":"tag-san-diego-county-sheriffs-office","19":"tag-sandiego","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa","26":"tag-vehicular-manslaughter"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114774693957306266","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28250","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=28250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}