{"id":791983,"date":"2026-05-12T22:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T22:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/791983\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T22:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T22:00:15","slug":"three-people-killed-in-san-diego-county-crashes-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/791983\/","title":{"rendered":"Three people killed in San Diego county crashes identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The county Medical Examiner\u2019s Office has identified three people killed earlier this month in two separate crashes in Santa Ysabel and Jacumba Hot Springs.<\/p>\n<p>Randy Arredondo, 26, and Rene Arredondo Jr., 26, both of Alamo, Texas, died May 3 when the driver of the GMC Sierra they were passengers in fell asleep at the wheel, causing the truck to crash into a center median on east Interstate 8 near Carrizo Gorge Road, county investigators said.<\/p>\n<p>The two passengers were wearing seatbelts and were ejected from the pickup. They died before they could be taken to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The pickup\u2019s driver, a 20-year-old man who was wearing a seatbelt, was taken to a hospital with injuries believed not to be life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p>Joan Marie Smith, 76, died when the Toyota Tocama she was driving crashed into a Toyota Corolla making a left turn onto state Route 79 from state Route 76 around 12:55 p.m. on May 6, investigators said.<\/p>\n<p>The pickup overturned multiple times, veered off the roadway, went down an embankment and crashed into a tree, CHP officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Smith died at the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The county Medical Examiner\u2019s Office has identified three people killed earlier this month in two separate crashes in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":187830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,5295,20161,1370,728,50,3549,3550,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-791983","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-crime-and-public-safety","12":"tag-east-county","13":"tag-latest-headlines","14":"tag-local-news","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-san-diego","17":"tag-san-diego-county","18":"tag-sandiego","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-united-states-of-america","21":"tag-unitedstates","22":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116563858459233980","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791983","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=791983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}