{"id":80036,"date":"2025-07-21T07:19:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/80036\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T07:19:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T07:19:13","slug":"family-remembers-father-and-son-killed-in-sr-67-rollover-crash-that-killed-five-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/80036\/","title":{"rendered":"Family remembers father and son killed in SR 67 rollover crash that killed five \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The family of a father and son who were killed in a deadly rollover crash on State Route 67 in Poway is heartbroken because the tragedy took the lives of two of their loved ones, Marcial Rivera Solorio and Emmanuel Rivera Abarca.<\/p>\n<p>They said both were loving, caring, and god-fearing men who loved their families and worked hard.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had many plans, I wanted him to be with me the moment I give birth,\u201d Glendy Gomez, Emmanuel\u2019s girlfriend said.<\/p>\n<p>Gomez is trying to find out how to tell the baby child she\u2019s expecting that it&#8217;s father, 32-year-old Emmanuel Rivera, was killed in a deadly car crash on Highway 67 in Poway.<\/p>\n<p>Gomez first found about the deadly wreck that killed her boyfriend Emmanuel, and his 59-year-old father, Marcial Rivera, through a post online.<\/p>\n<p>According to the San Diego County Sheriff\u2019s Department, the accident happened Friday afternoon between Poway Road and Scripps Poway Parkway, sparking a small brush fire in the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt helpless. I felt my heart racing,\u201d Gomez said.<\/p>\n<p>When Gomez recognized license plate of the truck, she and her boyfriend\u2019s mother rushed to the site of the accident on Highway 67, just north of Iron Mountain Drive, to get more information.<\/p>\n<p>According to sheriff\u2019s investigators, the three-vehicle crash killed a total of five people, including the Riveras.<\/p>\n<p>The impact of the crash was so severe, one vehicle careened into a ravine, sparking a brush fire that was extinguished.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou hold on to that hope, that hope that they will never leave you,\u201d Gomez said.<\/p>\n<p>Regina Abarca said her husband and son were heading to work, landscaping, when the accident happened. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She also had to bear the tragic news to her youngest daughter who is also expecting and is due next month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI miss both my son and my husband,\u201d Regina said.<\/p>\n<p>Regina describes both her husband and son as men who loved their family and worked tirelessly to provide for them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey had such love and respect for us and my husband, he was always joyful,\u201d Regina said. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They said although their absence is evident, they will forever treasure their memory and the love they shared with them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were a united family, he had a huge love toward our kids, the photo captures the kind of person he was,\u201d Regina said.<\/p>\n<p>The Sheriff\u2019s Department said it is reviewing video footage, which will be used to determine the cause of the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The family of a father and son who were killed in a deadly rollover crash on State Route&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":80037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,52406,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-80036","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-poway","12":"tag-san-diego","13":"tag-sandiego","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114890012325832208","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80036","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=80036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}