{"id":478639,"date":"2026-09-28T21:38:48","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T21:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/478639\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T21:38:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T21:38:48","slug":"victims-id-released-in-fatal-garden-grove-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/478639\/","title":{"rendered":"Victim’s ID Released in Fatal Garden Grove Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"

Authorities Monday released the identity of a woman killed in a single-vehicle crash in Garden Grove Saturday.<\/p>\n

The victim was identified as 66-year-old Maria Salgado Azucena, according to the Orange County Sheriff\u2019s Department.<\/p>\n

The crash occurred just before 3 a.m. Saturday at Knott Street and Acacia Avenue when a 2007 Toyota Highlander slammed into a utility pole on the southeast corner of the intersection, according to Garden Grove police Sgt. Thomas Capps.<\/p>\n

The driver, whose name was not released, was rushed to UC Irvine Medical Center with life-threatening injuries, Capps said. Azucena was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n

Police were continuing to investigate what caused the crash, and no arrest had been made, Capps said.<\/p>\n

Anyone who saw the crash or has video footage of it was asked to call investigators at 714-741-5823 or email mlang@ggcity.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities Monday released the identity of a woman killed in a single-vehicle crash in Garden Grove Saturday. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,350,1491,7997,10141,15856,7540],"class_list":["post-478639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-crash","tag-fatal","tag-garden","tag-grove","tag-released","tag-victims"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478639","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=478639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}