{"id":101793,"date":"2025-12-19T22:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/101793\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T22:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T22:44:08","slug":"teen-boy-struck-by-vehicle-injured-in-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/101793\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Boy Struck by Vehicle, Injured, in Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A teenage boy was injured Friday when he was struck by a vehicle while crossing a busy Long Beach street.<\/p>\n<p>The boy was struck at 7:36 a.m. Friday in the 1600 block of South Street at Walnut Avenue, Long Beach Police Department Sgt. Bradford Stein told City News Service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe preliminary investigation indicates that a teenage male juvenile pedestrian was crossing South Street in a crosswalk when he was struck by a vehicle driven by a male adult,\u201d Stein said. \u201cLBFD paramedics responded and transported the pedestrian to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries to his upper body.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The crash investigation was continuing. Distracted driving was under consideration as a possible contributing factor, Stein said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teenage boy was injured Friday when he was struck by a vehicle while crossing a busy Long&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[174,11834,131,133,132,9941,360,178],"class_list":["post-101793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-beach","tag-injured","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-struck","tag-teen","tag-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}