Speed and distracted driving may have contributed to a collision Tuesday night just south of Bixby Knolls that killed a 16-year-old girl, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Long Beach police said the girl was a passenger in a car being driven by a 17-year-old boy, who changed lanes and struck a Jeep Wrangler at around 8 p.m. Tuesday. Both cars were heading southbound on Long Beach Boulevard and had just passed Wardlow when the collision occurred, police said.<\/p>\n
The boy and the girl were both transported to a hospital in critical condition, police said. Authorities said they were notified Wednesday that the girl had died of her injuries.<\/p>\n
Her identity was not released.<\/p>\n
The driver of the Jeep was not injured, police said, and remained at the scene and is cooperating with the investigation.<\/p>\n
Police did not release further details on the role that distracted driving and speed may have played.<\/p>\n
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 1-800-222-8477 or visit lacrimestoppers.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speed and distracted driving may have contributed to a collision Tuesday night just south of Bixby Knolls that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5304,131,133,132],"class_list":["post-109119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-fatal-collision","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\/109119","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=109119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}