{"id":94360,"date":"2025-12-14T16:31:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T16:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/94360\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T16:31:29","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T16:31:29","slug":"most-anaheim-high-school-students-struck-by-alleged-dui-driver-released-from-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/94360\/","title":{"rendered":"Most Anaheim High School students struck by alleged DUI driver released from hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

Almost all of the students who were hit by an alleged drunk driver in Anaheim earlier this week are back home with their families.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Anaheim School School said one teen remains in the hospital.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the driver, 27-year-old Anthony Alva-Palafox<\/a>, is out of police custody after posting bail. He’s accused of plowing into the running team while intoxicated.<\/p>\n

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“There was probable cause to believe Mr. Alva-Palafox was operating a motor vehicle in an unsafe manner due to his level of intoxication,” said police in a statement released Wednesday. “He was arrested on suspicion of DUI for both alcohol and drugs.”<\/p>\n

Police said the students were waiting at the intersection of Harbor Boulevard and W. North Street just before 3 p.m. when they were hit by a Toyota Corolla.<\/p>\n

Eight students, all between 16 and 17 years old, were struck. Seven students were hospitalized.<\/p>\n

Eyewitness News obtained surveillance video from a nearby business that shows a red Toyota veer right and head toward the corner where the students were standing.<\/p>\n

The students’ coach, who was with them during their run, along with staff at a nearby medical facility were among several people who rushed to help the students.<\/p>\n

The Toyota has since been impounded and a search warrant is pending to determine if there was any evidence inside, according to police.<\/p>\n

Police said Alva-Palafox’s level of intoxication will be determined through blood analysis.<\/p>\n

Anaheim high school is now re-evaluating the running route for its student athletes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Almost all of the students who were hit by an alleged drunk driver in Anaheim earlier this week…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[50333,163,165,164,51833,50591,12293,3183],"class_list":["post-94360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-alva-palafox","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-anaheim-school-school","tag-anthony-alva-palafox","tag-police-custody","tag-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94360","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=94360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}