{"id":778286,"date":"2026-05-06T22:59:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T22:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/778286\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T22:59:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T22:59:17","slug":"hit-and-run-suspect-arrested-in-playa-del-rey-crash-that-killed-man-1-year-old-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/778286\/","title":{"rendered":"Hit-and-run suspect arrested in Playa del Rey crash that killed man, 1-year-old boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An alleged hit-and-run driver who fled from the scene of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/playa-del-rey-hit-and-run-crash-leaves-man-1-year-old-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">crash in Playa del Rey<\/a> that killed a 25-year-old man and his 1-year-old nephew over the weekend was arrested on Wednesday, Los Angeles police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened at around 4:30 a.m. on Sunday, when officers were dispatched to the 6800 block of Vista Del Mar Avenue, just south of Culver Boulevard, a news release from the Los Angeles Police Department said at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival, first responders found three critically injured people, a woman in her 30s, a 15-year-old girl and the 1-year-old boy, inside a blue BMW 5-Series. Both rushed to nearby hospitals, where the boy later died. He has since been identified by the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office as Roger Sandoval Farias.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police also said that the 25-year-old man in the BMW, identified as Osvaldo Sandoval Amaya, was pronounced dead at the scene. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/video\/playa-del-rey-hit-and-run-crash-leaves-man-1-year-old-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Family members told CBS LA<\/a> that he was Farias&#8217; uncle, and that they were all family members on their way home from a day at the beach.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/screenshot-2026-05-06-152259.png#.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2026-05-06-152259.png \" height=\"323\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  The aftermath of a deadly hit-and-run crash in Playa del Rey early Sunday morning, which left a 1-year-old boy and his 25-year-old uncle dead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                Citizen<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the other vehicle involved in the collision, a white Jeep Cherokee, ran from the scene on foot. He was last seen running northbound on Vista Del Mar, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Though the suspect hasn&#8217;t yet been identified, LAPD officers told CBS LA on Wednesday that a man had been taken into custody.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary investigation determined that the suspect&#8217;s Jeep crossed into oncoming traffic and collided head-on with the BMW.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who knows more about the crash was urged to contact LAPD&#8217;s West Traffic Division detectives at 213-473-0234.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An alleged hit-and-run driver who fled from the scene of a crash in Playa del Rey that killed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":778287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-778286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116530116595204428","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778286","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=778286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}