{"id":295766,"date":"2025-10-11T22:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T22:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/295766\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T22:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T22:38:12","slug":"ups-driver-steven-krueger-forever-in-ocean-beach-four-years-after-plane-crash-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/295766\/","title":{"rendered":"UPS driver Steven Krueger \u2018forever in Ocean Beach\u2019 four years after plane crash \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"

A plaque on a large piece of rock states the years Steven L. Krueger was born, when he died, and how he lived\u2014 “Forever in Ocean Beach”.<\/p>\n

\u201c<\/strong>We lost Steve four years ago, and to this day people are still remembering him,” said Jeffrey Krueger, his older brother speaking at a dedication ceremony Saturday.<\/p>\n

October 11, 2021, Steve Krueger was making his UPS deliveries in Santee, a job he did for years. He was killed when the pilot of a small plane lost consciousness and crashed into his delivery truck. Two homes were also destroyed. Krueger’s unexpected death devastated those who loved him.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cI spoke with him the night before the accident and he was actually doing me a favor and taking out the trash. That was the kind of guy he was,” said Wendy Adelstein. She first met Steve17 years ago when she rented an apartment from him. He was a landlord who quickly became a beloved friend.<\/p>\n

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Wendy Adelstein, holds a bouquet of flowers and a cup of mocha, Saturday, honoring her late friend, Steven Krueger, Ocean Beach, Calif., October 11, 2025.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Within a day of his death Wendy started organizing a plan to build a memorial to her friend. It\u2019s taken almost four years to get to the day of dedication. Companies donated the materials and labor, friends and family raised money through a Go Fund Me campaign, and the City of San Diego gave approval for the land use along the bike path. <\/p>\n

\u201cEvery morning before he went to work in Santee as a UPS driver he would stop at Val\u2019s Coffee Corner and get his mocha,” Adelstein said. That’s why she brought a fresh cup of his favorite drink to Saturday’s memorial.<\/p>\n

\u00a0“Today he’s able to have it one last time with a great view of OB. Thank you Val’s for the free mocha, and Steve this one’s for you,” she said cup in hand. <\/p>\n

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Family and friends took a moment to touch the new granite memorial in a sign of support, after Saturday’s ceremony, Ocean Beach, Calif., October 11, 2025.<\/p>\n

\u201c50 years from now people will come by jogging or on the bike path and they won\u2019t know Steve Krueger. But, they\u2019ll be able to Google him. So, really he\u2019ll never be forgotten,” his older brother, Jeffrey, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A plaque on a large piece of rock states the years Steven L. Krueger was born, when he…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":295767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,41642,10086,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-295766","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-in-memoriam","12":"tag-ocean-beach","13":"tag-san-diego","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"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115357936051870687","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295766","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=295766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}