{"id":281403,"date":"2026-04-23T03:30:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/281403\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T03:30:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:30:39","slug":"man-84-accidentally-hits-gas-pedal-pins-wife-to-wall-with-his-car-in-pacific-beach-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/281403\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 84, accidentally hits gas pedal, pins wife to wall with his car in Pacific Beach \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 84-year-old man apparently struck his wife with a car by accident, pinning her against a wall while trying to park in Pacific Beach Tuesday morning, San Diego police said.<\/p>\n<p>The man was attempting to park his 2015 Cadillac SRX on Mission Boulevard near Chalcedony Street at 9:45 a.m., police said. His wife, 78, was directing the car into the spot when the driver pressed the accelerator instead of the brake, pinning her to the wall, police said.<\/p>\n<p>She was hospitalized for a fractured femur, police said. The couple was visiting from Arizona.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 84-year-old man apparently struck his wife with a car by accident, pinning her against a wall while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,138,181,23,100,12258,74,84,76,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-281403","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-latest-headlines","11":"tag-local-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-pacific-beach","14":"tag-san-diego","15":"tag-san-diego-county","16":"tag-san-diego-headlines","17":"tag-san-diego-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281403","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=281403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}