{"id":109262,"date":"2025-12-26T04:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T04:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/109262\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T04:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T04:59:07","slug":"long-beach-crash-claims-life-of-teen-girl-2-urban-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/109262\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach Crash Claims Life of Teen Girl | 2 Urban Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH \u2013 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 <a href=\"http:\/\/lacrimestoppers.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lacrimestoppers.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH \u2013 A 16-year-old girl was killed in a two-vehicle crash in Long Beach in which speed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[12119,131,58726,133,132,22697],"class_list":["post-109262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-crime-public-safety","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-crash","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-teen-killed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109262","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=109262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}