{"id":18878,"date":"2012-08-05T16:21:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T23:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.57.196.122\/~gdatwofo\/theavtimes\/?p=18878"},"modified":"2012-08-09T21:50:31","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T04:50:31","slug":"palmdale-man-dies-in-fiery-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2012\/08\/05\/palmdale-man-dies-in-fiery-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Palmdale man dies in fiery crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_18880\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18880\" style=\"width: 270px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a title=\"Rancho Vista Blvd and Avenue Vista Verde in Palmdale\" href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/zyPoF\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18880\" title=\"Rancho Vista Blvd &amp; Ave Vista Verde Palmdale\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theavtimes.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Rancho-Vista-Blvd-Ave-Vista-Verde-Palmdale.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18880\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fatal single-vehicle crash location.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>PALMDALE \u2013 A 46-year-old Palmdale man was killed in a fiery crash early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bobby Phillips<\/strong> was traveling on Rancho Vista Boulevard around 1 a.m. when he apparently lost control of his vehicle and struck a tree at the intersection of Avenue Vista Verde in Palmdale, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis vehicle became engulfed in flames,\u201d said Lieutenant Ken Wright of the Palmdale Station.\u00a0 \u201cDeputies from Palmdale and Lancaster Stations attempted to remove the driver but his body was pinned in the driver compartment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Phillips, the sole occupant of the vehicle, was pronounced dead at the scene and appears to have died at the time of the initial impact, Wright said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cause of the accident is currently unknown due to no witnesses, no skid marks, and no other evidence indicating another vehicle being involved,\u201d Wright said.<\/p>\n<p>Officials were unable to immediately identify the type of vehicle Phillips was driving, but Wright said it was a \u201cvery expensive vehicle of some kind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALMDALE \u2013 A 46-year-old Palmdale man was killed in a fiery crash early Sunday morning. Bobby Phillips was traveling on Rancho Vista Boulevard around 1 a.m. when he apparently lost control of his vehicle and struck a tree at the intersection of Avenue Vista Verde in Palmdale, authorities said. \u201cHis vehicle became engulfed in flames,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":18880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18878"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}