{"id":10362,"date":"2025-10-17T21:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/10362\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T21:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:49:07","slug":"man-loses-control-suffers-major-injuries-in-scooter-crash-near-balboa-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/10362\/","title":{"rendered":"Man loses control, suffers major injuries in scooter crash near Balboa Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Falck-ambulance.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Falck-ambulance.jpg\" alt=\"Falck San Diego is the new ambulance provider for San Diego.\" class=\"wp-image-169234\"  \/><\/a>Falck San Diego is the new ambulance provider for San Diego. (File photo by Chris Stone\/Times of San Diego)<\/p>\n<p>A 53-year-old man riding an electric scooter suffered life-threatening injuries after a single-vehicle crash on the south side of Balboa Park.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiego.gov\/police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego police<\/a> officers responded to 1200 Pershing Drive at approximately 5:49 p.m. Thursday, after for unknown reasons, the victim made a movement to the right and exited the roadway. <\/p>\n<p>His scooter hit a patch of dirt, where the man lost control and fell to the ground,\u00a0 Officer Jose Perales said.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0victim sustained a brain bleed, fractured cheek, fractured ribs, a fractured clavicle, a scapular fracture, according to Perales.<\/p>\n<p>The department\u2019s Traffic Division is investigating the crash. Anyone with information related to it is asked to call 858 495-7800 or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sdcrimestoppers.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime Stoppers<\/a> at 888-580-8477.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Falck San Diego is the new ambulance provider for San Diego. (File photo by Chris Stone\/Times of San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[4549,9860,9861,74,76,75,9862,9863],"class_list":["post-10362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-balboa-park","tag-injury-crash","tag-pershing-drive","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-police-department","tag-scooter-crash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}