{"id":248917,"date":"2026-04-02T19:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/248917\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T19:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T19:59:07","slug":"three-people-killed-in-traffic-crashes-identified-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/248917\/","title":{"rendered":"Three people killed in traffic crashes identified \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities have publicly identified three people who were killed over the last week in San Diego-area traffic crashes.<\/p>\n<p>The most recent of the crashes claimed the life of an 80-year-old woman in Rancho San Diego, the county Medical Examiner\u2019s Office reported. Evelyn Buangan Castro of San Diego was a passenger in a car that collided head-on with another vehicle on Willow Glen Drive near Jamacha Road shortly before 6 p.m. Monday, according to the agency. Buangan Castro was pronounced dead at Sharp Memorial Hospital about an hour later.<\/p>\n<p>A day earlier, 47-year-old Sergio Lopez of San Ysidro was mortally injured when the motorcycle he was riding crashed into a parked vehicle on Palm Avenue, the medical examiner reported. Paramedics took him to UC San Diego Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead shortly before 9:30 p.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>About 8 p.m. Saturday, Juan Nieto, 50, was fatally struck by a pickup truck at the intersection of Prospect and Woodside avenues in Lakeside. He died at the scene. The agency did not say where Nieto had lived.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities have publicly identified three people who were killed over the last week in San Diego-area traffic crashes.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,138,3053,181,23,100,74,84,76,75,4067,3055],"class_list":{"0":"post-248917","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-latest-headlines","12":"tag-local-news","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-san-diego","15":"tag-san-diego-county","16":"tag-san-diego-headlines","17":"tag-san-diego-news","18":"tag-san-ysidro","19":"tag-south-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248917","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=248917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}