{"id":400295,"date":"2026-07-16T04:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T04:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/400295\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T04:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T04:20:07","slug":"long-beach-man-charged-with-murder-in-100-mph-crash-that-sent-womans-car-into-wetlands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/400295\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Man Charged With Murder In 100 MPH Crash That Sent Woman&#8217;s Car Into Wetlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under California law, a DUI-related death may be charged as murder when there is evidence that the driver had knowledge that impaired driving is dangerous to human life, she said.<\/p>\n<p>McHargue was arrested more than a month later on July 15 in Oceanside, police said. He was booked at the Orange County Jail, where he is being held without bail.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/california\/orange-county\/man-drives-car-oc-wetlands-prompting-water-rescue\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Car Submerges In Water Off PCH, Driver In &#8216;Critical&#8217; Condition<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Driving in excess of 100 miles per hour, at more than double the posted speed limit and with an alcohol level more than double the legal limit is not an accident,&#8221; Huntington Beach Police Chief Eric Parra said. &#8220;This was a series of reckless choices that ended an innocent woman&#8217;s life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding the investigation was urged to contact the Huntington Beach Police Department at 714-536-5231.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Under California law, a DUI-related death may be charged as murder when there is evidence that the driver&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-400295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400295","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=400295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}