It had rained that June morning in Mexico City, leaving the pavement slick.<\/p>\n
Isaac was speeding near the airport when his motorcycle apparently hit a damaged stretch of wet asphalt<\/a>, skidding out of control and sliding toward a passing tanker truck. The driver braked hard but couldn\u2019t stop in time, crushing the bike \u2014 and Isaac \u2014 under its front wheels. The victim was carrying his mother, Blanca Estela, as a passenger: She was thrown to the side and luckily survived \u2014 yet had to watch as her son was killed by<\/a> the giant vehicle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It had rained that June morning in Mexico City, leaving the pavement slick. Isaac was speeding near the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[226,9548,19700,8790,21771,1397,8911,20582,650,25051,90,56,54,55,10976,43025],"class_list":["post-171137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-apps","tag-brazil","tag-chile","tag-cities","tag-colombia","tag-environment","tag-latin-america","tag-mexico-city","tag-public-health","tag-rio-de-janeiro","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-view","tag-world-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}