{"id":90070,"date":"2025-12-11T03:33:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T03:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/90070\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T03:33:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T03:33:06","slug":"car-drives-onto-taxiway-in-bizarre-incident-at-socal-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/90070\/","title":{"rendered":"Car drives onto taxiway in bizarre incident at SoCal airport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A contract security guard was hospitalized Monday afternoon after he drove onto an airport taxiway and sped past planes, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p>On Dec. 8 around 1:12 p.m., the guard assigned to a security checkpoint \u201cdrove a vehicle into an airport taxiway at a high rate of speed,\u201d according to a statement from John Wayne Airport spokesperson AnnaSophia Servin. <\/p>\n<p>Video <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/latimes.slack.com\/archives\/D04FCK4UPB7\/p1765411147453709\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">shared with ABC7<\/a> showed a white sedan speeding down the taxiway near planes. The news outlet reported that an air traffic controller advised a Southwest plane to \u201chold position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s a high-speed chase on the taxiway,\u201d the controller said.<\/p>\n<p>Orange County sheriff\u2019s deputies detained the driver shortly thereafter and requested a medical assessment from the Orange County Fire Authority, the statement said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe individual was evaluated on scene and determined to be experiencing a possible medical emergency,\u201d Servin said. <\/p>\n<p>He was subsequently hospitalized and suspended from his job, according to the statement. Airport operations continued on schedule. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A contract security guard was hospitalized Monday afternoon after he drove onto an airport taxiway and sped past&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[49743,49985,49989,283,287,49988,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,49986,11075,13197,49987,3025,49984,5050,49990],"class_list":["post-90070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-abc7","tag-airport-taxiway","tag-bizarre-incident","tag-car","tag-driver","tag-high-rate","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-times","tag-o-c-airport","tag-orange-county-sheriff","tag-plane","tag-socal-airport","tag-statement","tag-taxiway","tag-video","tag-white-sedan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90070","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=90070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}