{"id":368175,"date":"2010-02-26T23:13:03","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T04:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8dada8e970b"},"modified":"2010-02-26T23:13:03","modified_gmt":"2010-02-27T04:13:03","slug":"santa-barbara-driver-admits-killing-marathon-runner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/368175","title":{"rendered":"Santa Barbara driver admits killing marathon runner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Santa Barbara man has pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter and other charges after killing a 66-year-old marathon runner in August 2008, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p>Gregory Doan, 58, was drunk and high on heroin when his van swerved onto a shoulder, scattering a group of 20 runners who were training as part of a Lymphoma and Leukemia Society team. <\/p>\n<p>Caroline Samuels, who was looking forward to a marathon in San Francisco the next month, was trying to escape up an embankment when she was struck, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Samuels was a longtime resident of the Bay Area before moving to Santa Barbara about two years before the accident. She had become a docent at the Santa Barbara courthouse and had signed on to teach reading skills as an Americorps volunteer. <\/p>\n<p>Doan\u2019s plea was entered Thursday. He could be sentenced to 35 years in prison. He had four drunk-driving convictions in the 1990s, police said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Steve Chawkins in Ventura County<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Santa Barbara man has pleaded guilty to vehicular manslaughter and other charges after killing a 66-year-old marathon runner in August 2008, authorities said. Gregory Doan, 58, was drunk and high on heroin when his van swerved onto a shoulder, scattering a group of 20 runners who were training as part of a Lymphoma and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}