{"id":109017,"date":"2025-12-25T20:59:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T20:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/109017\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T20:59:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T20:59:06","slug":"girl-16-killed-in-two-vehicle-crash-in-long-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/109017\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl, 16, Killed in Two-Vehicle Crash in Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 16-year-old girl was killed in a two-vehicle crash in Long Beach in which speed and distracted driving might have been contributing factors, authorities said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred at about 8:20 p.m. Tuesday in the area of Long Beach Boulevard and Wardlow Road, where the girl was a passenger in a 2007 Saturn driven by 17-year-old boy, according to the Long Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The Saturn and a 2021 Jeep Wrangler were both going southbound on Long Beach Boulevard, south of Wardlow, when the Saturn made a lane change and struck the Wrangler, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager was rushed to a hospital in critical condition and the driver of the Wrangler \u2014 who was uninjured \u2014 remained at the scene and cooperated with police.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives were notified of the 16-year-old girl\u2019s death on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the crash was urged to call the LBPD at 562-570-7358. Callers who wish to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-22-8477 or visit lacrimestoppers.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 16-year-old girl was killed in a two-vehicle crash in Long Beach in which speed and distracted driving&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[174,350,9514,169,131,133,132,58645],"class_list":{"0":"post-109017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-beach","9":"tag-crash","10":"tag-girl","11":"tag-killed","12":"tag-long-beach","13":"tag-long-beach-headlines","14":"tag-long-beach-news","15":"tag-two-vehicle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109017","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=109017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}