{"id":6347,"date":"2023-01-12T01:42:13","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T01:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci02b51927e00124c7"},"modified":"2023-01-12T01:42:13","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T01:42:13","slug":"4-latino-men-dead-in-fiery-highway-crash-burned-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/2023\/01\/12\/4-latino-men-dead-in-fiery-highway-crash-burned-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"4 LATINO MEN DEAD IN FIERY HIGHWAY CRASH, BURNED ALIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Edwin Garcia, Arthuro Garcia, Miguel Portillo, and Kevin Turcios Garc\u00eda were all killed on January 10, 2023 on Interstate 85 in Charlotte, NC during a massive crash. The men were family members and construction workers. <\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.charlottealertsnews.com\/.image\/c_fit,h_600,w_600\/MTk1MDk5MjIzMDg2MDgxNzYy\/3-trukkll-blu.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p>The men were all in a truck with a trailer attached to the back on Interstate 85 in Charlotte on January 10th at 4:40 P.M. A dump truck had stopped in the middle of traffic due to running out of gas. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/CHARLOTTEALERTSNEWS.COM\/charlottealerts\/news\/4-people-dead-on-interstate-85-near-university-city-blvd\">The truck with the 4 victims then crashed into the back of the dump truck. The truck with the victims in it then immediately caught fire. The crash likely knocked the men unconscious.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>The fire consumed the whole truck within seconds. The victims were not able to get out of the truck and were burned alive, toxic smoke filled the truck also.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Kevin, Arthuro, Miguel, and Edwin all died on site. The dump truck drivers have not yet been charged with a crime. <\/p>\n<p>The crash shut down Interstate 85 for hours. Traffic was backed up for miles. The deadly crash was near the University City Boulevard exit. <\/p>\n<p>This is the 7th death in Charlotte within a week involving latino construction workers. <a href=\"https:\/\/CHARLOTTEALERTSNEWS.COM\/charlottealerts\/news\/video-3-dead-in-charlotte-construction-site-fall-70-foot-drop\">Watch video from last week showing 3 construction workers that died in uptown after falling from a scaffold from 8 stories high on a tall building.<\/a> <\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/construction-3331438_960_720.jpg\"><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 latino construction workers have now been killed within a week in Charlotte, the last 4 in a fire on I-85<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[703,372,658,27,173,71,461,578,77,82,200,75,18,707,38,16,169,329,434,435,332,214,237,91,74,59,580,45,196,68,36],"class_list":["post-6347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-4-dead","tag-box-truck","tag-burn","tag-business","tag-collision","tag-commercial-truck","tag-commerical-fire","tag-construction","tag-crash","tag-dead-body","tag-dead-body-in-car","tag-deadly-crash","tag-death","tag-dump-truck","tag-employee","tag-family","tag-fatal-collision","tag-fire","tag-fire-department","tag-fire-truck","tag-firey-crash","tag-highway","tag-highway-crash","tag-highway-patrol","tag-interstate","tag-latino","tag-smoke","tag-traffic","tag-truck-crash","tag-trucks","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}