{"id":9347,"date":"2026-10-05T21:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/chefs\/9347\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T21:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T21:46:09","slug":"new-video-shows-pch-crash-that-killed-nobu-malibu-chef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/chefs\/9347\/","title":{"rendered":"New video shows PCH crash that killed Nobu Malibu chef"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>New video shows the moment that a driver smashed into a car on Pacific Coast Highway over the weekend, killing a Nobu Malibu chef who was sleeping inside the parked vehicle. <\/p>\n<p>In video obtained by KTLA-TV, an SUV can be seen traveling along the highway before smashing into another car. The force of the impact sent the struck car flying forward into another parked vehicle. <\/p>\n<p>The crash, which took place around 7 a.m. Saturday near Carbon Canyon Road in Malibu, killed one person, whom the Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Department identified as 51-year-old Ryo Uchimiya. <\/p>\n<p>Uchimiya had arrived at work early Saturday and was waiting in his car outside Nobu Malibu, a high-end Japanese eatery known for celebrity sightings, according to the Sheriff\u2019s Department. <\/p>\n<p>The SUV driver, who authorities said was a 16-year-old boy, appeared to have been speeding, sheriff\u2019s Sgt. John Addington said. No charges had been filed, but the investigation is continuing. <\/p>\n<p>The boy hasn\u2019t been publicly identified by authorities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s a young kid,\u201d an unnamed witness told KTLA. \u201cHis parents didn\u2019t even show up to find him. He was sitting here two hours by himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 21-mile stretch of PCH that runs through Malibu is one of the deadliest and most notorious roads in the state, with an average of about four crash-related fatalities per year over the last decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New video shows the moment that a driver smashed into a car on Pacific Coast Highway over the weekend, killing a Nobu Malibu chef who was sleeping inside the parked vehicle. In video obtained by KTLA-TV, an SUV can be seen traveling along the highway before smashing into another car. The force of the impact<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[9799,9800,9792,9801,5,9795,9797,9804,9802,9793,9791,9794,9741,9803,9796,9798],"class_list":["post-9347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chefs","tag-authority","tag-boy","tag-car","tag-carbon-canyon-road","tag-chef","tag-department","tag-driver","tag-high-end-japanese-eatery","tag-los-angeles-county-sheriff","tag-new-video","tag-nobu-malibu-chef","tag-pch-crash","tag-ryo-uchimiya","tag-sgt","tag-sheriff","tag-vehicle"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/vive.im\/@dnc\/117390500381351102","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/chefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/chefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/chefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/chefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/chefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/chefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/chefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/chefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/chefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diningandcooking.com\/chefs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}