{"id":174950,"date":"2026-02-12T12:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/174950\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T12:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:07:10","slug":"person-dies-in-crash-near-el-cajon-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/174950\/","title":{"rendered":"Person dies in crash near El Cajon \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One person died Wednesday when a pickup truck crashed in an East County intersection.<\/p>\n<p>The fatal crash occurred at Greenfield Drive and La Cresta Road in the unincorporated Granite Hills area near El Cajon shortly before 3 p.m., according to the California Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>The victim wound up trapped inside the damaged vehicle and died at the scene, the CHP reported.<\/p>\n<p>Further details were not immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One person died Wednesday when a pickup truck crashed in an East County intersection. The fatal crash occurred&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,138,3053,6568,181,23,100,74,84,76,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-174950","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","10":"tag-east-county","11":"tag-el-cajon","12":"tag-latest-headlines","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-san-diego","16":"tag-san-diego-county","17":"tag-san-diego-headlines","18":"tag-san-diego-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174950","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=174950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}