{"id":499988,"date":"2026-01-07T23:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/499988\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T23:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T23:14:11","slug":"chula-vista-motorcyclist-killed-in-collision-with-state-firefighter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/499988\/","title":{"rendered":"Chula Vista motorcyclist killed in collision with state firefighter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/CHP-1-640.jpg?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767827651_353_CHP-1-640.jpg\" alt=\"California Highway Patrol cruiser. Photo by Chris Stone\" class=\"wp-image-119226\" style=\"width:802px;height:auto\"  \/><\/a>A California Highway Patrol cruiser. (File photo by Chris Stone\/Times of San Diego)<\/p>\n<p>A motorcyclist from Chula Vista was killed Wednesday in a collision with an on-duty firefighter\u2019s pickup truck on a stretch of rural roadway, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The fatal crash took place at about 8:30 a.m. in the 17300 block of state Route 94, in front of Cal Fire Station 30 in Dulzura, according to the state agency.<\/p>\n<p>The motorcyclist, 30, was heading west when the 33-year-old driver of an eastbound 2023 Toyota Tacoma made a left turn in his path, the <a href=\"http:\/\/chp.ca.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Highway Patrol<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The rider of the 2021 Yamaha died at the scene of the accident. The man\u2019s name was withheld pending family notification.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics took the firefighter, an Imperial Beach resident, to a San Diego hospital for treatment of minor injuries, CHP public-affairs Officer Jasmine Lopez said.<\/p>\n<p>The Cal Fire employee was driving his personal vehicle at the time of the crash, said Mike Cornette, a fire captain with the state agency.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A California Highway Patrol cruiser. (File photo by Chris Stone\/Times of San Diego) A motorcyclist from Chula Vista&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":484186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,18372,276,16214,211681,22717,3549,7264,224414,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-499988","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-calfire","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-chula-vista","13":"tag-dulzura","14":"tag-imperial-beach","15":"tag-san-diego","16":"tag-sandiego","17":"tag-traffic-fatal","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115856360380265106","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499988","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=499988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}