{"id":2857,"date":"2011-10-19T17:02:49","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T00:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/198.57.196.122\/~gdatwofo\/theavtimes\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2019-01-24T12:47:29","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T20:47:29","slug":"car-crash-claims-life-of-antelope-valley-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2011\/10\/19\/car-crash-claims-life-of-antelope-valley-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Car crash claims life of Antelope Valley youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LITTLEROCK \u2013 A 13-year-old boy was partially ejected through a rear window and killed in a car accident Tuesday night, according to a California Highway Patrol report.<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Tovar, 13, of Littlerock, was one of four passengers in a 1994 Honda Accord driven by 18-year-old Gerardo Tovar Jr. around 9:35 p.m. Tuesday, the report states.<\/p>\n<p>Gerardo Tovar Jr. was traveling east on Avenue R, just east of 107<sup>th<\/sup> Street East, when he drove onto a dirt shoulder and lost control of the car, the report states.<\/p>\n<p>The car struck a concrete pole, rotated and struck a wooden electrical pole, then rolled onto its left side and struck a tree, the report states. Christopher Tovar, who sat unrestrained in the middle of the back seat was partially ejected through the rear window and suffered fatal injuries as a result of the collision, the report states.<\/p>\n<p>Driver Gerardo Tovar Jr., and the three other passengers in the vehicle \u2013 Alfonso Garcia, 18, David Sotelo, 20, and Juan Carreno Gaytan, 18, all from Littlerock \u2013 suffered minor injuries in the crash and were transported to the Antelope Valley Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>No other information was immediately available Wednesday afternoon regarding the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LITTLEROCK \u2013 A 13-year-old boy was partially ejected through a rear window and killed in a car accident Tuesday night, according to a California Highway Patrol report. Christopher Tovar, 13, of Littlerock, was one of four passengers in a 1994 Honda Accord driven by 18-year-old Gerardo Tovar Jr. around 9:35 p.m. Tuesday, the report states. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"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":[1493],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857"}],"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=2857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}