{"id":24961,"date":"2018-12-04T10:04:28","date_gmt":"2018-12-04T15:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=24961"},"modified":"2018-12-04T10:04:28","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T15:04:28","slug":"postal-carrier-dies-after-being-struck-by-car-while-removing-mail-from-his-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2018\/12\/04\/postal-carrier-dies-after-being-struck-by-car-while-removing-mail-from-his-vehicle\/","title":{"rendered":"Postal Carrier Dies After Being Struck By Car While Removing Mail From His Vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/cdn2.trb.tv\/iframe.html?ec=g0NDJzZzE6mucFgVN3tmSoz1ye-uYBCQ&amp;pbid=f987944e2b8d47c5ad7da7977780b8bd&amp;pcode=9vOTQyOvfOKTDwM65FXm0S1biBeX\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A postal worker who died after a car hit him while he was out delivering mail in Commerce Monday morning will be remembered as a man who loved his family, God and the Dodgers, loved ones said.<\/p>\n<p>Joel Perales, 58, was fatally struck around 10 a.m. in the 2100 block of South Atlantic Boulevard, said Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;s Lt. Mejia.<\/p>\n<p>His family says he was at the back of his postal truck, pulling out mail and packages to deliver, when he was hit by a car that had apparently lost control.<\/p>\n<p>Footage from the scene shows a white coupe lodged underneath the back end of the postal truck, which had a shattered windshield and appeared to have itself smashed into the rear of a large container truck.<\/p>\n<p>Joel had worked for the U.S. Postal Service for 30 years, his family said.<\/p>\n<p>His son Timothy said his father was supposed to be off on Monday but had decided to work overtime for the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Extra money for my mom,&#8221; Timothy said. &#8220;He had five kids: four boys, a daughter. Three daughters-in-law. My sister right now is engaged; they&#8217;re going to get married next year and my dad was planning to walk her down.&#8221; Read more at <a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/2018\/12\/03\/postal-carrier-dies-following-collision-in-monterey-park-officials\/\">KTLA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24962\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Joel-Perales.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"468\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Joel-Perales.jpg 468w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Joel-Perales-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Joel-Perales-86x54.jpg 86w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Joel-Perales-120x74.jpg 120w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Joel-Perales-378x237.jpg 378w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A postal worker who died after a car hit him while he was out delivering mail in Commerce Monday morning will be remembered as a man who loved his family, God and the Dodgers, loved ones said. Joel Perales, 58, was fatally struck around 10 a.m. in the 2100 block of South Atlantic Boulevard, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-video-gallery","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24963,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24961\/revisions\/24963"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}