{"id":170545,"date":"2026-02-09T16:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/170545\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T16:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T16:28:13","slug":"motorcycle-rider-chased-by-state-parks-officers-killed-in-descanso-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/170545\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle rider chased by state parks officers killed in Descanso crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/DSC_0665-e1544141558345.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\/2026\/02\/DSC_0665.jpg\" alt=\"Paramedics\" class=\"wp-image-76496\"\/><\/a>(File photo by Alexander Nguyen\/Times of San Diego)<\/p>\n<p>A motorcycle rider who was being pursued by law enforcement died in a crash in the Descanso community in southeastern San Diego County, authorities said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The crash was reported at 9:16 p.m. Sunday at Merigan Fire Road and Viejas Boulevard, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/chp.ca.gov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California Highway Patrol<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The CHP said <a href=\"https:\/\/joincsp.parks.ca.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">California State Parks officers<\/a> were pursuing the motorcycle prior to the crash. There was no immediate information on the reason for the chase.<\/p>\n<p>The motorcycle rider was pronounced dead at the scene. The person\u2019s name, age and gender were not released.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(File photo by Alexander Nguyen\/Times of San Diego) A motorcycle rider who was being pursued by law enforcement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[6333,16950,852,81779,12007,2685,2592,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-170545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california-state-parks","tag-cash","tag-chp","tag-descanco","tag-fatality","tag-motorcycle","tag-pursuit","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170545","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=170545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}