{"id":91771,"date":"2020-03-05T16:50:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T00:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=91771"},"modified":"2020-03-05T17:37:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T01:37:00","slug":"pickup-crashes-into-big-rig-on-14-freeway-in-palmdale-one-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2020\/03\/05\/pickup-crashes-into-big-rig-on-14-freeway-in-palmdale-one-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"Pickup crashes into big rig on 14 Freeway in Palmdale, one killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-78281\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Fatal-crash-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"279\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PALMDALE &#8211; A man driving a pickup truck was killed early Thursday morning in a crash involving a big rig on the southbound Antelope Valley (14) Freeway in Palmdale, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leonard Mompeller<\/strong>, 35, died at the scene of the crash, which happened around 2:55 a.m. Thursday, March 5, on the 14 Freeway near Avenue O, according to the California Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>According to the CHP, Mompeller&#8217;s GMC pickup rear-ended the big rig and stopped in the No. 3 lane. The big rig kept going.<\/p>\n<p>The impact ripped the bumper from the rear of the trailer of the semi, and authorities were on the lookout for a big rig with major rear-end damage, the CHP said. Two lanes were blocked until about 6:15 a.m. while an investigation was conducted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Excessive speed may be a contributing factor for the cause of this collision; however, a thorough investigation is on-going,&#8221; a CHP report states.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on this crash is encouraged to call the CHP Antelope Valley Area office at 661-948-8541.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALMDALE &#8211; A man driving a pickup truck was killed early Thursday morning in a crash involving a big rig on the southbound Antelope Valley (14) Freeway in Palmdale, authorities said. Leonard Mompeller, 35, died at the scene of the crash, which happened around 2:55 a.m. Thursday, March 5, on the 14 Freeway near Avenue [&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":[719,1499,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91771"}],"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=91771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91771\/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=91771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}