{"id":62983,"date":"2025-06-06T07:50:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T07:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=62983"},"modified":"2025-06-06T07:50:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T07:50:28","slug":"california-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=62983","title":{"rendered":"California dad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/17491960311225855375891503498592-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/17491960311225855375891503498592-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/17491960311225855375891503498592-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/17491960311225855375891503498592-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/17491960311225855375891503498592.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A father is dead after a single-vehicle crash on Coast Highway in Laguna Beach on Memorial Day.<br>An investigation revealed the passenger \u2013 James Politoski \u2013 was teaching his daughter to drive when the collision occurred.<br>The cause of the crash is currently under investigation by the Laguna Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fatal crash happened on Monday, May 26, around 4:15 p.m. on Coast Highway between Wesley and Montage Resort drives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;preliminary investigation revealed the car, driven by a 15-year-old girl with a driver\u2019s permit, crashed through a fence in the upper parking lot of the now-shuttered Gelson\u2019s Market at 24 Monarch Bay Plaza, according police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The vehicle then broke through a fence barrier, and rolled 40 feet down an embankment before flipping upside down onto the highway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The girl sustained significant injuries and was taken to the hospital. She is expected to survive, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her father, James Politoski, 64, of Laguna Beach, was identified as the only passenger in the vehicle. He died at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What we don\u2019t know:<br>The cause of the collision remains under investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What\u2019s next:<br>The Laguna Beach Police Department is continuing its investigation into the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/-KZzDK1Ikg4\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=62978\">also read&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A father is dead after a single-vehicle crash on Coast Highway in Laguna Beach on Memorial Day.An investigation revealed the passenger \u2013 James Politoski \u2013 was teaching&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62985,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62983\/revisions\/62985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/62984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}