{"id":703044,"date":"2010-03-28T16:01:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-28T20:01:53","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:48:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:48:52","slug":"corvette-driver-is-killed-in-huntington-beach-crash-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/703044","title":{"rendered":"Corvette driver is killed in Huntington Beach crash, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 54-year-old man was killed Saturday in Huntington Beach after crashing his vehicle into a streetlight and a tree, authorities said.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Sparky D. Wilbur was driving a black Chevrolet Corvette east on Indianapolis Avenue about 8:15 p.m. at a high rate of speed when he lost control and hit a light pole and then a tree on the sidewalk near Magnolia Street, Huntington Beach police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The passenger in the car was transported to UCI Medical Center with minor injuries. <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Alcohol is believed to have been a factor, police said. In July 2008, the Daily Pilot reported that Wilbur had been arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence. Wilbur\u2019s name is listed as a past participant in several motor-sports racing events.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>Anyone who saw the crash occur is asked to call the Huntington Beach police traffic bureau at (714) 536-5666.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>&#8212; Corina Knoll<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 54-year-old man was killed Saturday in Huntington Beach after crashing his vehicle into a streetlight and a tree, authorities said.Sparky D. Wilbur was driving a black Chevrolet Corvette east on Indianapolis Avenue about 8:15 p.m. at a high rate of speed when he lost control and hit a light pole and then a tree [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3772,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2WTq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":804380,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703044\/revisions\/804380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}