{"id":109797,"date":"2025-12-26T19:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T19:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/109797\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T19:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T19:37:07","slug":"man-crossing-street-dies-after-being-hit-by-suv-in-long-beach-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/109797\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Crossing Street Dies After Being Hit By SUV In Long Beach, Police Say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 A man crossing a Long Beach street died after he was hit by an SUV late Tuesday, police say.<\/p>\n<p>Officers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longbeach.gov\/police\/press-releases\/traffic-fatality---west-willow-street-and-maine-avenue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">responded to a traffic collision<\/a> with injuries involving a pedestrian and an SUV at West Willow Street and Maine Avenue shortly after 10:30 p.m., the Long Beach Police Department said.<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach Fire Department rescuers tried to save the man, then took him to a hospital, where he died from his injuries, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Initial investigation shows a 2023 Toyota RAV4 was traveling on West Willow Street when it hit a man crossing the street at an intersection, police said, adding that it\u2019s not yet clear if he was in an unmarked crosswalk.<\/p>\n<p>The driver remained on scene and is cooperating with the investigation, which police said is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they do not believe speed, distracted driving or impaired driving are factors in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner will identify the man, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the crash is asked to contact police at 562- 570-7110.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 A man crossing a Long Beach street died after he was hit by an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-109797","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\/109797","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=109797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}