{"id":19787,"date":"2025-10-23T16:47:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T16:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/19787\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T16:47:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T16:47:06","slug":"child-struck-by-hit-and-run-driver-in-el-cajon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/19787\/","title":{"rendered":"Child struck by hit-and-run driver in El Cajon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 12-year-old boy was critically injured when he was struck by a hit-and-run driver Wednesday evening in El Cajon, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The collision took place on Ballantyne Street near East Park Avenue around 8 p.m., police said.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics and police officers found the boy in the roadway suffering from major head trauma. The driver who hit him, believed to be in a white or silver SUV, didn\u2019t stop after the crash, police Lt. Joe Crawford said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The boy was rushed to a hospital, where he was reported to be in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Police are asking the public for help to identify the vehicle, which likely has front-end damage. Anyone with information is asked to call El Cajon police at\u00a0 619-579-3311.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 12-year-old boy was critically injured when he was struck by a hit-and-run driver Wednesday evening in El&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19788,"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-19787","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\/19787","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=19787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}