{"id":150,"date":"2007-06-05T20:39:44","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T03:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=150"},"modified":"2007-06-05T20:40:21","modified_gmt":"2007-06-06T03:40:21","slug":"carlsbad-man-dies-in-baja-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"Carlsbad Man Dies in Baja 500"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chris Lokken<\/strong>, 31, of Carlsbad was a rider in a buggy that had broken down early Sunday morning, according to <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/yourturn\/viewtopic.php?t=218210\">Sport News<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. A truck stopped and offered him a ride to the next check point. He jumped in with his helmet on, however, he was reported sitting in the cab behind the front seats with out a seat belt. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The truck was about a mile from the checkpoint when the course went up a steep hill. . . The truck couldn&#8217;t make it up. It backed up to make another try but in doing so went over the side, rolling over and over down a 100-yard ravine, Fish said. . . Lokken was thrown from the truck and his helmet came off. He died at the scene of head and internal injuries, Clark said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our thoughts are with his friends and family.<\/p>\n<p>[<strong>Link:<\/strong> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&#38;ct=us\/0-0&#38;fd=R&#38;url=http:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/yourturn\/viewtopic.php%3Ft%3D218210&#38;cid=1117000204&#38;ei=ZCtmRuCcN4T0rQPim-mcBg\" target=\"_blank\">SportingNews.com<\/a><\/strong>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Lokken, 31, of Carlsbad was a rider in a buggy that had broken down early Sunday morning, according to Sport News. A truck stopped and offered him a ride to the next check point. He jumped in with his helmet on, however, he was reported sitting in the cab behind the front seats with [&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":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}