{"id":457056,"date":"2010-03-22T01:18:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T05:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01310fc8501f970c"},"modified":"2010-03-22T01:17:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T05:17:55","slug":"off-duty-orange-county-sheriffs-deputy-and-passenger-killed-in-car-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/457056","title":{"rendered":"Off-duty Orange County sheriff&#8217;s deputy and passenger killed in car crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An off-duty Orange County sheriff\u2019s deputy and a passenger were killed Saturday evening when their Dodge Viper struck a tree in Huntington Beach.<\/p>\n<p>In a news release, Huntington Beach police said the driver, Deputy Terry Stepp, was traveling north at 6:18 p.m. on Goldenwest\u00a0Street near Pecan Avenue &quot;at a high rate of speed when for unknown reasons he lost control and crashed into a tree located on the center median.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Stepp, 44, of Wildomar in Riverside County, was taken to UCI Medical Center, where he died of his injuries before midnight. Passenger David Kerr, 59, of Huntington Beach, was pronounced dead at the scene. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Bettina Boxall <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An off-duty Orange County sheriff\u2019s deputy and a passenger were killed Saturday evening when their Dodge Viper struck a tree in Huntington Beach. In a news release, Huntington Beach police said the driver, Deputy Terry Stepp, was traveling north at 6:18 p.m. on Goldenwest\u00a0Street near Pecan Avenue &quot;at a high rate of speed when for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4133,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457056","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\/4133"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}