{"id":446890,"date":"2025-12-14T17:30:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/446890\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T17:30:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:30:22","slug":"two-police-officers-struck-by-drunk-wrong-way-driver-in-pacific-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/446890\/","title":{"rendered":"Two police officers struck by drunk, wrong-way driver in Pacific Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/SDPD-Patch.webp?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\/12\/SDPD-Patch.webp\" alt=\"Crime scene\" class=\"wp-image-325548\"  \/><\/a>A close-up photo of a San Diego Police officer. (File photo courtesy of the San Diego Police Department)<\/p>\n<p>Two <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiego.gov\/police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Diego Police<\/a> officers who were on foot in a Pacific Beach intersection were struck Saturday evening by a car operated by a wrong-way driver who was believed intoxicated.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred at 8:25 p.m. in the intersection of Thomas Avenue and Mission Boulevard, Officer Anthony Carrosco told City News Service.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect\u2019s Honda Civic was eastbound in westbound lanes when it struck the on-duty officers, Carrosco said. It was unclear what the officers were doing in the roadway.<\/p>\n<p>One officer suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was taken by ambulance to a trauma center, he said. The other officer was not injured.<\/p>\n<p>The man driving the Honda was arrested for suspicion of felony DUI, Carrosco said. The man\u2019s name and age were not immediately released.<\/p>\n<p>The intersection was closed for the investigation, he said.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A close-up photo of a San Diego Police officer. (File photo courtesy of the San Diego Police Department)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":200313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,11769,23858,3549,48109,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-446890","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-collision","12":"tag-dui","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-san-diego-police","15":"tag-sandiego","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-united-states-of-america","18":"tag-unitedstates","19":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","20":"tag-us","21":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446890","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=446890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446890\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}