{"id":112021,"date":"2025-12-29T06:07:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T06:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/112021\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T06:07:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T06:07:08","slug":"long-beach-records-one-of-the-deadliest-years-on-its-roads-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/112021\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach records one of the deadliest years on its roads \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"

A fatal crash Saturday night has marked 2025 as one of the deadliest years on record for drivers and pedestrians in Long Beach.<\/p>\n

A woman was hit and killed by a vehicle around 8:45 p.m. on West PCH and Cedar Avenue. Long Beach police are investigating the incident, which police records show is the city\u2019s 53rd fatal crash this year and has resulted in a 54th death.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, two people died in separate collisions on the same day. A man died after a crash on W. Willow and Main Street, and a 16-year-old died in a crash on Long Beach and Wardlow. Police believe that speed and distracted driving were factors.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve noticed in the last couple of years, I\u2019ve seen a lot more car accidents on the road,” said Cal State Long Beach student Max Ash.<\/p>\n

According to state data from the last 10 years, Long Beach is California’s 8th deadliest city for crashes on both surface streets and freeways.<\/p>\n

From July 2024 to July 2025, there were 215 pedestrian-involved crashes citywide<\/a>, Long Beach data showed.<\/p>\n

Five of the 54 people killed in 2025 were along a mile-long stretch of 7th\u00a0Street near CSU Long Beach, which has raised some concern among students.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve just seen around the lot, young people drive around a lot more hastily,” said Ash.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the Long Beach City Council voted to install 18 speed cameras next year at intersections where speeding and collisions have occurred.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, if you do that. It\u2019ll give people some kind of deterrent against people who are likely to be more on their phones or like doing whatever,” said Ash.<\/p>\n

NBCLA editor Missael Soto contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fatal crash Saturday night has marked 2025 as one of the deadliest years on record for drivers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-112021","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\/112021","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=112021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}