{"id":145148,"date":"2026-01-22T20:16:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T20:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/145148\/"},"modified":"2026-01-22T20:16:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T20:16:41","slug":"orange-county-driver-killed-when-pursuit-suspect-crashes-into-their-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/145148\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange County driver killed when pursuit suspect crashes into their vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A police pursuit that started in Anaheim on Wednesday night ended with the suspect\u2019s vehicle colliding with another car, killing the driver, officials said.<\/p>\n

A driver who fled a traffic stop led Anaheim police into the neighboring city of Placentia, said Anaheim police Sgt. Eric Anderson.<\/p>\n

The suspect crashed into another vehicle near the intersection of Bradford and Madison avenues, killing the other driver, Anderson said. <\/p>\n

A third vehicle was then struck in the crash and that driver suffered minor injuries, he said. The suspect who fled police was taken into custody.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw a car driving like at least 70 mph, and he ran the red light, so I was able to break in time,\u201d Maria Torres told KABC<\/a>. \u201cI just saw the cops running behind him. It seemed like it was a pursuit, so I called 911 and it confirmed that it was a pursuit. It must\u2019ve been like less than a foot away from hitting me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The identity of the driver was not immediately available. Police did not provide details on why they had initially contacted the suspect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A police pursuit that started in Anaheim on Wednesday night ended with the suspect\u2019s vehicle colliding with another…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145149,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,4079,72515,283,287,72513,3830,36190,72514,2463,4248,72512,2131,11877,178,20295],"class_list":["post-145148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-anaheim-police","tag-bradford","tag-car","tag-driver","tag-eric-anderson","tag-intersection","tag-madison-avenue","tag-orange-county-driver","tag-placentia","tag-police-pursuit","tag-pursuit-suspect","tag-suspect","tag-traffic-stop","tag-vehicle","tag-wednesday-night"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145148","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=145148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}