{"id":24244,"date":"2011-07-07T11:04:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T18:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=24244"},"modified":"2011-07-07T11:53:36","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T18:53:36","slug":"skateboarder-hits-and-kills-83-year-old-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=24244","title":{"rendered":"Skateboarder Hits And Kills 83-Year-Old Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 17-year-old skateboarder hit and killed 83-year-old <strong>Maryann Slettehaugh<\/strong> as she was crossing a Capitola, California street on Tuesday, July 5, 2011, according to a story in the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/breaking-news\/ci_18421264\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Mercury News<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Traffic was backed up from the hill toward the village, and a box truck was stopped at a crosswalk for an 83-year-old Capitola woman who was crossing the street toward the ocean, Dally said. . . The boy on a skateboard was going about 15 mph when he apparently spotted the woman and jumped off his skateboard to try to avoid her, Dally said. The woman was about a step from the sidewalk when the pair collided, Capitola police Sgt. <strong>Andrew Dally<\/strong> said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the story the skateboarder immediately tried to help the woman, but she died eight hours later at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. Our thoughts are with the woman&#8217;s family (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/28468483\/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\">especially her husband of 64 years<\/a><\/strong>) and the skateboarder who was reportedly arrested following this tragic accident.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/breaking-news\/ci_18421264\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Mercury News<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktvu.com\/news\/28468483\/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\">KTVU.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 17-year-old skateboarder hit and killed 83-year-old Maryann Slettehaugh as she was crossing a Capitola, California street on Tuesday, July 5, 2011, according to a story in the San Jose Mercury News. Traffic was backed up from the hill toward the village, and a box truck was stopped at a crosswalk for an 83-year-old Capitola [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24244"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24259,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24244\/revisions\/24259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}