{"id":109086,"date":"2025-12-25T23:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T23:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/109086\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T23:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T23:11:07","slug":"teenager-killed-in-two-car-crash-during-christmas-week-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/109086\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenager killed in two-car crash during Christmas week \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 16-year-old passengers was killed after suffering serious injuries from a car crash in Long Beach earlier this week, police said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The collision happened at around 8:20 p.m. on Dec. 23 in the area of Long Beach Boulevard and Wardlow Road, according to the Long Beach Police Department. <\/p>\n<p>When officers responded to the scene, they saw the 16-year-old girl as well as a 17-year-old male driver of a 2007 Saturn Aura. They were taken to a hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of another car, a 2021 Jeep Wrangler, was uninjured and cooperated with investigators at the scene, police added.<\/p>\n<p>According to the preliminary findings, the two cars were traveling southbound on Long Beach Boulevard when the Saturn was trying to change the lane and crashed into the Jeep.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Speed and distracted driving may have been contributing factors to this collision,&#8221; the Long Beach Police Department said. <\/p>\n<p>Investigators said they were notified the 16-year-old female passenger died on Christmas Eve.<\/p>\n<p>Police are not releasing the identity of the teenager due to her age.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who may have witnessed this collision is asked to contact the LBPD Collision Investigation Detail at 562-570-7358.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 16-year-old passengers was killed after suffering serious injuries from a car crash in Long Beach earlier this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-109086","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\/109086","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=109086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}