{"id":451497,"date":"2026-09-02T22:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T22:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/451497\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T22:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T22:30:13","slug":"outdoor-diner-loses-legs-after-suv-careens-into-table-at-la-restaurant-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/451497\/","title":{"rendered":"Outdoor Diner Loses Legs After SUV Careens Into Table At LA Restaurant: Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cristina and Gabriela Vargas were at Los Cinco Puntos in Boyle Heights when the crash occurred, leaving Gabriela with a head injury and knee laceration and Cristina with serious head and body trauma that resulted in three surgeries and a double leg amputation, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/help-gabriela-and-cristina-after-accident\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to a GoFundMe<\/a> started by family friend Yolie Ascencio.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCristina, now in her 80s, has always been a vibrant and social person with a true lust for life,\u201d Ascencio wrote in the GoFundMe, created to help the family with medical bills and living expenses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cristina and Gabriela Vargas were at Los Cinco Puntos in Boyle Heights when the crash occurred, leaving Gabriela&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-451497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451497","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=451497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}