{"id":559586,"date":"2026-02-01T22:36:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/559586\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T22:36:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T22:36:12","slug":"man-22-killed-when-his-vehicle-strikes-tree-and-rolls-over-in-escondido","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/559586\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 22, killed when his vehicle strikes tree and rolls over in Escondido"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Escondido-Police-e1528122272760.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Escondido-Police-e1528122272760.jpg\" alt=\"Escondido Police cruiser\" class=\"wp-image-11502\" style=\"width:804px;height:auto\"  \/><\/a>An Escondido Police cruiser. (File photo courtesy Escondido Police Department)<\/p>\n<p>A 22-year-old Valley Center man died Sunday morning after losing control of his vehicle, which hit a tree and rolled over into the back yard of a home in Escondido, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred at 3:24 a.m. Sunday on El Norte Parkway, east of Lincoln Avenue, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.escondido.gov\/172\/Police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Escondido Police Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No other vehicles were involved and there were no known witnesses, the EPD said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver was pronounced dead at the scene. Police said it was unclear if drugs or alcohol were factors in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>It was also unclear how much damage the property sustained.<\/p>\n<p>The driver\u2019s name is being withheld pending family notification, according to the EPD.<\/p>\n<p>Police closed east El Norte Parkway for several hours for the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT\n\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Escondido Police cruiser. (File photo courtesy Escondido Police Department) A 22-year-old Valley Center man died Sunday morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":559587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,4903,10087,244474,7923,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-559586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-america","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-crash","tag-escondido","tag-escondido-police","tag-fatality","tag-san-diego","tag-sandiego","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115997768709548355","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559586","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=559586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/559587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}