{"id":109961,"date":"2025-12-26T22:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T22:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/109961\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T22:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T22:22:09","slug":"16-year-old-dies-after-2-car-crash-in-long-beach-police-investigation-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/109961\/","title":{"rendered":"16-Year-Old Dies After 2-Car Crash In Long Beach: Police Investigation Continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 A 16-year-old passenger died after a two-car crash in Long Beach on Tuesday, police say.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longbeach.gov\/police\/press-releases\/traffic-fatality--long-beach-boulevard-and-wardlow-road\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">report of a two-car collision with injuries<\/a> at Long Beach Boulevard and Wardlow Road shortly before 8:30 p.m., the Long Beach Police Department said.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, they found a 16-year-old girl \u2014 the passenger \u2014 and a 17-year-old boy \u2014 the driver \u2014 inside a 2007 Saturn Aura, police announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Rescuers with the Long Beach Fire Department helped the teenagers and took them to a hospital, where they were in critical condition, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Officers spoke with the driver of a 2021 Jeep Wrangler, who was not hurt and remained at the scene, police said, adding that the driver is cooperating with the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Initial investigation shows that both cars were traveling south on Long Beach Boulevard when the teenage driver tried to make a lane change and collided with the Jeep, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Police said speed and distracted driving are being investigated as factors in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, detectives were notified that the 16-year-old passenger had died, police said. Her identity is being withheld because of her age.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation into the crash is ongoing, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the crash is asked to contact police at 562-570-7358.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONG BEACH, CA \u2014 A 16-year-old passenger died after a two-car crash in Long Beach on Tuesday, police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-109961","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\/109961","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=109961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}