{"id":120837,"date":"2026-01-05T14:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/120837\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T14:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T14:57:07","slug":"2-killed-3-hurt-in-high-speed-hit-and-run-crash-long-beach-police-say-long-beach-post-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/120837\/","title":{"rendered":"2 killed, 3 hurt in high-speed hit-and-run crash, Long Beach police say \u2022 Long Beach Post News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities today were investigating after a crash at a Long Beach intersection killed two people and sent three to hospitals.<\/p>\n<p>The wreck was reported at 10:15 p.m. Sunday at Sixth Street and Atlantic Avenue, Long Beach Fire Department Capt. Dennis Garrett told City NewsService.<\/p>\n<p>Three vehicles were involved in the crash, Long Beach Police Department Lt. Benjamin Vargas said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPreliminary investigation suggests the suspect vehicle was traveling eastbound on Sixth Street at a high rate of speed and collided with two vehicles traveling southbound on Atlantic Avenue,\u201d Vargas said.<\/p>\n<p>The person driving the suspect vehicle fled the scene before officers arrived, he said.<\/p>\n<p>A man and a woman were pronounced dead at the scene, Vargas said. Three other adult victims were taken by ambulance to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>One of the vehicles was overturned in the crash. It was not thesuspect\u2019s vehicle, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities today were investigating after a crash at a Long Beach intersection killed two people and sent three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-120837","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\/120837","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=120837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}