{"id":71303,"date":"2016-04-15T09:03:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T16:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=71303"},"modified":"2016-04-15T16:08:26","modified_gmt":"2016-04-15T23:08:26","slug":"driver-killed-passenger-seriously-injured-in-14-fwy-crash-in-lancaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2016\/04\/15\/driver-killed-passenger-seriously-injured-in-14-fwy-crash-in-lancaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver killed, passenger seriously injured in 14 Fwy crash in Lancaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-61343\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/fatal-crash.jpg\" alt=\"fatal crash\" width=\"200\" height=\"187\" \/>LANCASTER &#8211; A 23-year-old driver was killed and his female passenger was seriously hurt early Friday morning when their SUV rolled and slammed into a freeway guardrail\u00a0in Lancaster and they were both ejected onto the roadway, authorities said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The crash took place about 12:15 a.m. Friday, April 15, on the southbound Antelope Valley (14) Freeway, north of Avenue K, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/CHP-14-Fwy-Fatal-4.15.16.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">California Highway Patrol report<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A 23-year-old Palmdale man was driving a 1999 Chevy Blazer southbound on SR-14 at an unknown speed when he \u201clost control of the Chevy Blazer, rolled, collided with the center median guardrail and both the driver and passenger were ejected,\u201d the CHP report states.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Neither the driver nor the passenger were wearing seatbelts, according to the report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CHP officers tried to revive the driver at the scene using CPR, but he died from his injuries. His name is being withheld pending notification of kin.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A 29-year-old Palmdale woman who was the passenger in the Blazer was treated at the scene and then hospitalized with major injuries, according to the CHP.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The traffic collision is still under investigation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: The deceased driver has been identified as 23-year-old Abel Salazar of Palmdale, according to coroner\u2019s Assistant Chief Ed Winter.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANCASTER &#8211; A 23-year-old driver was killed and his female passenger was seriously hurt early Friday morning when their SUV rolled and slammed into a freeway guardrail\u00a0in Lancaster and they were both ejected onto the roadway, authorities said. The crash took place about 12:15 a.m. Friday, April 15, on the southbound Antelope Valley (14) Freeway, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71303"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}