{"id":263343,"date":"2026-04-12T01:52:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T01:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/263343\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T01:52:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T01:52:07","slug":"at-least-one-person-killed-in-fiery-crash-on-south-bay-freeway-in-bonita","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/263343\/","title":{"rendered":"At least one person killed in fiery crash on South Bay freeway in Bonita"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BONITA (CNS) &#8211; At least one person was killed Saturday when a car crashed into the back of a tow truck and caught fire on the South Bay (54) Freeway in Bonita, east of National City.<\/p>\n<p>The crash was reported at 3:34 p.m. Saturday on the eastbound South Bay Freeway west of the South Bay (125) Expressway, according to the California Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses told the CHP the tow truck picked up a vehicle on the right-hand shoulder when the car slammed into it and caught fire, also causing the vehicle on the tow truck to catch fire.<\/p>\n<p>The wreckage blocked eastbound lanes 2 and 3 of the South Bay Freeway and prompted a SigAlert.<\/p>\n<p>The San Diego County Medical Examiner&#8217;s office was summoned to the scene at 4:43 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities did not say who died in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026, City News Service, Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BONITA (CNS) &#8211; At least one person was killed Saturday when a car crashed into the back of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[34643,350,5119,74,76,75,821],"class_list":{"0":"post-263343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-bonita","9":"tag-crash","10":"tag-national-city","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-san-diego-headlines","13":"tag-san-diego-news","14":"tag-traffic"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263343","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=263343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}