{"id":83077,"date":"2018-09-03T11:24:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-03T18:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=83077"},"modified":"2018-09-03T14:17:48","modified_gmt":"2018-09-03T21:17:48","slug":"lancaster-man-killed-in-solo-vehicle-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2018\/09\/03\/lancaster-man-killed-in-solo-vehicle-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancaster man killed in traffic crash [updated]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-78281\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Fatal-crash-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"279\" \/><strong>UPDATE: This story has been updated to reflect the latest information from the CHP. Read the updated story at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2018\/09\/03\/lancaster-man-killed-two-vehicle-crash-other-driver-flees-the-scene\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2018\/09\/03\/lancaster-man-killed-two-vehicle-crash-other-driver-flees-the-scene\/<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">**<\/p>\n<p>LANCASTER &#8211; A motorist killed in a crash in Lancaster has been publicly identified.<\/p>\n<p>He was 50-year-old <strong>Duane D. Molnar<\/strong> of Lancaster, according to coroner&#8217;s Investigator Jerry McKibben.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred a little after 3:35 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 2, in the area of Avenue J and 90th Street West, the California Highway Patrol said.<\/p>\n<p>The motorist, now identified as Molnar, was driving a silver BMW westbound on Avenue J when the vehicle crashed into a pole, according to the CHP and sources at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Molner was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>No further information was immediately available.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note [UPDATE]: CHP officials initially told City News Service that Molnar&#8217;s car hit a pole in a single-vehicle crash. However, CHP Officer J. Perkins later told KTLA that Molnar&#8217;s vehicle was possibly struck by a Subaru sedan, whose driver fled the scene on foot. [<a href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/2018\/09\/02\/driver-killed-in-hit-and-run-crash-near-lancaster-chp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the KTLA story here<\/a>]. We will update this story with more information when it becomes available from the CHP.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATE: This story has been updated to reflect the latest information from the CHP. Read the updated story at:\u00a0https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2018\/09\/03\/lancaster-man-killed-two-vehicle-crash-other-driver-flees-the-scene\/. ** LANCASTER &#8211; A motorist killed in a crash in Lancaster has been publicly identified. He was 50-year-old Duane D. Molnar of Lancaster, according to coroner&#8217;s Investigator Jerry McKibben. The crash occurred a little after 3:35 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":78281,"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\/83077"}],"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\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}