{"id":713616,"date":"2010-04-09T23:31:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T03:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01347fc55475970c"},"modified":"2010-04-09T23:31:26","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T03:31:26","slug":"costa-mesa-driver-who-killed-pedestrian-while-texting-sentenced-to-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/713616","title":{"rendered":"Costa Mesa driver who killed pedestrian while texting sentenced to prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A motorist was sentenced in a Santa Ana court Friday to four years in prison for killing a pedestrian while texting on a cellphone. <\/p>\n<p>Martin Bert Kuehl, 42, of Costa Mesa was convicted in January of vehicular manslaughter in the death of Martha Ovalle early Aug. 29, 2008.<br \/>\nOvalle, 32, a nanny, was struck by Kuehl\u2019s SUV as she was crossing the street near Dover and Westcliff drives in Newport Beach. <\/p>\n<p>Orange County prosecutors said Kuehl was texting while driving. He stopped at a light, failed to notice when it turned green, then lurched forward when the driver of the car behind him honked. <\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said he told Newport Beach police that he didn\u2019t see Ovalle in the crosswalk before hitting her, despite having an unobstructed view. <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Jill Leovy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A motorist was sentenced in a Santa Ana court Friday to four years in prison for killing a pedestrian while texting on a cellphone. Martin Bert Kuehl, 42, of Costa Mesa was convicted in January of vehicular manslaughter in the death of Martha Ovalle early Aug. 29, 2008. Ovalle, 32, a nanny, was struck by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2942,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-713616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2ZDW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713616","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\/2942"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}