{"id":126498,"date":"2021-08-09T14:35:15","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T21:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=126498"},"modified":"2021-08-09T14:35:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T21:35:15","slug":"fatal-collision-on-priest-coulterville-road-takes-life-of-big-oak-flat-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=126498","title":{"rendered":"Fatal Collision on Priest Coulterville Road Takes Life of Big Oak Flat Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Groveland, CA&#8230;On August 8, 2021, at approximately 2:20 pm, a 56-year-old man from Big Oak Flat, Ca was driving his 2013 Chevy Equinox northbound on Priest Coulterville Road, south of State Route 120 at a high rate of speed. The driver allowed his vehicle to travel to the left, across the southbound lane and off the roadway where it crashed into a hillside.  After striking the hillside, the vehicle rolled over and came to rest on its roof. The driver succumbed to his injuries as a result of the crash. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/chpson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/chpson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/chpson.jpg 200w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/chpson-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/chpson-30x30.jpg 30w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the investigation, it was determined the driver was not wearing his seatbelt at the time of the crash. It is unknown if drugs or alcohol are a factor.  <\/p>\n<p>This crash is currently under investigation and the identity of the driver is being held pending family notification. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Groveland, CA&#8230;On August 8, 2021, at approximately 2:20 pm, a 56-year-old man from Big Oak Flat, Ca was driving his 2013 Chevy Equinox northbound on Priest Coulterville Road, south of State Route 120 at a high rate of speed. The driver allowed his vehicle to travel to the left, across the southbound lane and off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,16,1,13,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-law-enforcement","category-news","category-traffic-fire","category-tuolumne-county","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/chpson.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/37822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}