{"id":269504,"date":"2026-04-15T19:25:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/269504\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T19:25:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:25:23","slug":"14-year-old-riding-dirt-bike-hospitalized-after-colliding-with-car-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/269504\/","title":{"rendered":"14-year-old riding dirt bike hospitalized after colliding with car \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 14-year-old boy was seriously injured when he collided with another vehicle while riding a dirt bike in San Diego&#8217;s Encanto neighborhood, authorities said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened around 8 p.m. Tuesday, when the teen on a westbound 90cc dirt bike struck the front corner on the right side of a northbound Chevy Suburban driven by a 45-year-old man. The driver of the Chevy had attempted an eastbound turn onto the 6800 block of Wunderlin Avenue from 68th Street, according to the San Diego Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The teen suffered an open fracture to his left ankle, bilateral pulmonary contusions, multiple facial fractures and brain bleeds, the department reported.<\/p>\n<p>Traffic Division officers were investigating and determined driving under the influence was not a contributing factor.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities urged anyone with further information to call the SDPD or Crime Stoppers at 888-580-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 14-year-old boy was seriously injured when he collided with another vehicle while riding a dirt bike in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[21536,74,76,75,986],"class_list":["post-269504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-encanto","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-sdpd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269504","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=269504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}