{"id":26574,"date":"2019-06-10T09:30:24","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T14:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/?p=26574"},"modified":"2019-06-10T09:30:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T14:30:24","slug":"dui-arrest-and-death-of-usps-contractor-in-fiery-big-rig-crash-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/2019\/06\/10\/dui-arrest-and-death-of-usps-contractor-in-fiery-big-rig-crash-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"DUI Arrest and Death of USPS Contractor in Fiery Big-Rig Crash In California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/cdn2.trb.tv\/iframe.html?ec=F0ZXJ4aDE67U0bwAwUGFvQjLx7tR2xj1&amp;pbid=f987944e2b8d47c5ad7da7977780b8bd&amp;pcode=9vOTQyOvfOKTDwM65FXm0S1biBeX\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The 22 Freeway reopened Sunday afternoon after a suspected DUI crash killed a truck driver carrying mail and packages for the U.S. Postal Service early in the morning, prompting a closure that lasted more than 12 hours, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The collision happened around 4 a.m. on the eastbound lanes near Valley View and Golden West streets, according to California Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of a passenger vehicle somehow lost control, veered to the right and landed on the No. 3 lane facing the wrong way, CHP Officer Duane Graham told KTLA.<\/p>\n<p>The motorist, later identified as a 26-year-old Irvine man, got out and was standing on the right shoulder of the freeway when a tractor trailer struck his car.<\/p>\n<p>The semitruck then slammed into the center divider, overturned and caught fire, Graham said. The driver, a contractor for the U.S. Postal Service, died at the scene, according to CHP. More at <a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/2019\/06\/09\/dui-arrest-made-after-big-rig-driver-dies-in-fiery-crash-on-sr-22-in-garden-grove\/\">KTLA<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-26575\" src=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Big-Rig-Crash-CA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Big-Rig-Crash-CA.jpg 399w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Big-Rig-Crash-CA-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Big-Rig-Crash-CA-124x90.jpg 124w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 22 Freeway reopened Sunday afternoon after a suspected DUI crash killed a truck driver carrying mail and packages for the U.S. Postal Service early in the morning, prompting a closure that lasted more than 12 hours, authorities said. The collision happened around 4 a.m. on the eastbound lanes near Valley View and Golden West [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26574","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\/26574","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=26574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26576,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26574\/revisions\/26576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/postalemployeenetwork.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}