{"id":149444,"date":"2026-01-26T01:39:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T01:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/149444\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T01:39:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T01:39:08","slug":"1-person-dead-1-arrested-after-dui-crash-near-soledad-chp-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/149444\/","title":{"rendered":"1 person dead, 1 arrested after DUI crash near Soledad, CHP says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tThe California Highway Patrol said a Gonzales man is dead and another is facing felony DUI charges after a deadly crash east of Soledad late Saturday night.CHP said the driver and passenger were traveling at an unknown speed on Metz Road\/Highway 146 south of Stonewall Canyon Road when the vehicle went off the road and rolled over.Investigators said the passenger, identified by CHP dispatch as 22-year-old Nathan Ruiz, was ejected and died at the scene.Dispatchers identified the driver as 24-year-old Octavio Hernandez of Gonzales.Hernandez suffered minor injuries and was transported to Natividad Medical Center.CHP said Hernandez is facing felony DUI charges.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tMONTEREY COUNTY, Calif. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The California Highway Patrol said a Gonzales man is dead and another is facing felony DUI charges after a deadly crash east of Soledad late Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>CHP said the driver and passenger were traveling at an unknown speed on Metz Road\/Highway 146 south of Stonewall Canyon Road when the vehicle went off the road and rolled over.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said the passenger, identified by CHP dispatch as 22-year-old Nathan Ruiz, was ejected and died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Dispatchers identified the driver as 24-year-old Octavio Hernandez of Gonzales.<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez suffered minor injuries and was transported to Natividad Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>CHP said Hernandez is facing felony DUI charges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The California Highway Patrol said a Gonzales man is dead and another is facing felony DUI charges after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":101782,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[74072,7,9,859,8,852,350,5324,287,16023,11077,4879,8296,74071,74070,2321,1575,74069,858,16208,7656,74068,11040,74073,74074,39528],"class_list":["post-149444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-24-year-old-octavio-hernandez","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-highway-patrol","tag-california-news","tag-chp","tag-crash","tag-deadly-crash","tag-driver","tag-driving-under-the-influence","tag-dui","tag-dui-crash","tag-fatal-crash","tag-felony-dui-charge","tag-gonzales-man","tag-hernandez","tag-highway","tag-metz-road","tag-monterey-county","tag-passenger","tag-person","tag-rollover","tag-soledad","tag-soledad-late-saturday-night","tag-stonewall-canyon-road","tag-unknown-speed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149444","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=149444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}