{"id":121049,"date":"2026-01-05T18:22:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/121049\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T18:22:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T18:22:24","slug":"long-beach-hit-and-run-crash-leaves-2-dead-search-underway-for-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/121049\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach hit-and-run crash leaves 2 dead, search underway for driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"David Gonz\u00e1lez Image\" class=\"hsDdd NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/13143637_davidgonzalez_160x200.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Monday, January 5, 2026 1:40PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"2 killed, 3 injured in Long Beach hit-and-run crash\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LONG BEACH, Calif.  (KABC) &#8212; Two people were killed and three others were injured in a hit-and-run crash in Long Beach overnight, prompting a search for the driver responsible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The deadly incident happened just after 10 p.m. Sunday at the intersection of Atlantic Avenue and 6th Street, according to the Long Beach Police Department. Investigators believe the suspect was speeding eastbound on 6th when they crashed into two cars going south on Atlantic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The suspect took off from the scene before police arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A man and woman died at the scene. They have not been identified. Three other adult victims were taken to the hospital with injuries, but they are all expected to be OK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, January 5, 2026 1:40PM LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; Two people were killed and three others were&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[63717,131,133,132],"class_list":["post-121049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-63717","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\/121049","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=121049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}