{"id":507686,"date":"2026-10-25T18:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T18:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/507686\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T18:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T18:24:08","slug":"alleged-drunk-driver-crashes-into-large-group-of-cyclists-in-montclair-killing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/507686\/","title":{"rendered":"Alleged drunk driver crashes into large group of cyclists in Montclair, killing 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Halloween-themed group bicycle ride in Montclair ended in tragedy Saturday night after an allegedly drunk driver plowed into several riders, killing two, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/montclairpdca\/posts\/pfbid0MFKefXJ7oP6oHckP9w4v2LnNqc5edT4wwc4tqZPhLJMxQY5t5nzRTD4ib68RoeRfl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">According to the Montclair Police Department<\/a>, the crash was reported in the area of Kingsley Street and Tudor Avenue at about 10:39 p.m. Investigations revealed that about 30 bicyclists, as part of a self-coordinated Halloween ride, were riding eastbound on Kingsley when a driver collided with several individuals.<\/p>\n<p>The driver fled the scene immediately following the collisions.<\/p>\n<p>Police said one bicyclist was pronounced dead at the scene. An additional rider, identified only as a woman, died at a local hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Another person was hospitalized with major injuries. They remain in stable condition. An additional rider suffered minor injuries and declined treatment, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement later identified the driver and found him at his home near the scene. The man, identified as 38-year-old Valentin Alberto Rodriguez, was arrested on suspicion of DUI causing injury or death, felony hit-and-run involving death and gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, at about 2:40 a.m. Sunday. He was booked into the West Valley Detention Center.<\/p>\n<p>No additional details were immediately made available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Halloween-themed group bicycle ride in Montclair ended in tragedy Saturday night after an allegedly drunk driver plowed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":507687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-507686","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\/507686","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=507686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/507687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}