{"id":7660,"date":"2025-10-23T13:27:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T13:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=7660"},"modified":"2025-10-23T13:27:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T13:27:29","slug":"officer-lauren-craven-age-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=7660","title":{"rendered":"Officer Lauren Craven, age 25,"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Officer Lauren Craven Remembered for Heroic Actions in Fatal I-8 Crash<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Late on&nbsp;<strong>October 20, 2025<\/strong>,&nbsp;<strong>Officer Lauren Craven<\/strong>, 25, of the&nbsp;<strong>La Mesa Police Department<\/strong>,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>was struck and killed while helping at a multi-vehicle crash on&nbsp;<strong>Interstate 8 near Fairmount Avenue<\/strong>&nbsp;in San Diego County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident began when two vehicles collided, one overturning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A third car struck the overturned vehicle, killing a&nbsp;<strong>19-year-old driver<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Returning from duty, Officer Craven stopped to assist even though she hadn\u2019t been dispatched.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While aiding victims, another car hit the crash scene, fatally injuring her and the young driver.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<strong>California Highway Patrol<\/strong>&nbsp;is investigating the collisions and whether&nbsp;<strong>impairment or speed<\/strong>&nbsp;were factors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Described by colleagues as \u201c<strong>selfless and heroic<\/strong>,\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Craven joined the department in&nbsp;<strong>February 2024<\/strong>&nbsp;and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>was inspired to serve after surviving an assault in college.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Governor Gavin Newsom<\/strong>&nbsp;ordered flags flown at half-staff,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>as the community mourns her bravery and renews calls to follow the&nbsp;<strong>Move Over Law<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officer Lauren Craven Remembered for Heroic Actions in Fatal I-8 Crash Late on&nbsp;October 20, 2025,&nbsp;Officer Lauren Craven, 25, of the&nbsp;La Mesa Police Department, was struck and killed while helping at a multi-vehicle crash on&nbsp;Interstate 8 near Fairmount Avenue&nbsp;in San Diego County. The incident began when two vehicles collided, one overturning. A third car struck the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7662,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7660\/revisions\/7662"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}