{"id":102096,"date":"2025-12-20T03:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T03:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/102096\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T03:07:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T03:07:07","slug":"teen-boy-injured-after-being-hit-by-vehicle-in-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/102096\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Boy Injured After Being Hit By Vehicle In Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 A teenage boy was injured today when he was struckby 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>&#8220;The 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,&#8221; Stein said. &#8220;LBFD paramedics responded and transported the pedestrian to a local hospital with non-life-threatening injuries to his upper body.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The crash investigation was continuing. Distracted driving was under consideration as a possible contributing factor, Stein said.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025, City News Service, Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 A teenage boy was injured today when he was struckby a vehicle while crossing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102097,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-102096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102096","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=102096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102096\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}