{"id":143053,"date":"2026-01-21T12:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/143053\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T12:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:37:11","slug":"speeding-tesla-crashes-through-bixby-knolls-pharmacy-slams-into-coffee-shop-long-beach-post-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/143053\/","title":{"rendered":"Speeding Tesla crashes through Bixby Knolls pharmacy, slams into coffee shop \u2022 Long Beach Post News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Long Beach police say a high-speed, two-car crash in Bixby Knolls sent one of the vehicles careening into two nearby businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The wreck happened at about 7:45 p.m. Monday at Roosevelt Road and Atlantic Avenue, according to Long Beach police.<\/p>\n<p>They said a man driving a 2023 Tesla sedan was speeding southbound on Atlantic Avenue when he hit a 2012 Honda Accord that had made a left turn in front of him from the northbound side of Atlantic Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>The crash caused the Tesla to veer off the road and roll over, ending up on its side inside Medcompounders Pharmacy and SALA Coffee &amp; Wine bar at the southwest corner of the intersection.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"736\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/tesla-pharmacy-826257-ru7ryvqv-606026-OMqOaDym-1024x736.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-181088\"  \/>Bystanders try to help a driver trapped in a Tesla that crashed into a pharmacy. Photo courtesy of a Bixby Knolls resident, via Blair Cohn.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters extricated the driver of the Tesla, which had crashed through a wall that the two businesses share, said Long Beach Fire Department Capt. Jack Crabtree.<\/p>\n<p>SALA posted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTuAGcWEVfd\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a photo of the damage on social media<\/a> with a message that they would be closed \u201cuntil further notice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Video footage from the scene showed glass and debris scattered throughout the pharmacy. A desk chair and office plant were also on the ground as one bystander tried to calm the Tesla driver, who was still in the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>The Tesla driver and the woman driving the Honda were both taken to a hospital for treatment of non-life-threatening injuries, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Blair Cohn, president of the Bixby Knolls Business Improvement Association, said business owners and neighbors are \u201cfed up\u201d with speeding in the area.<\/p>\n<p>He added that he and the board of the business improvement association will meet Thursday to discuss how to push for more speed enforcement in the area.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is one example of what\u2019s happening everywhere,\u201d Cohn said.<\/p>\n<p>City officials have acknowledged that speeding is one of the major factors in Long Beach\u2019s rising number of deadly crashes. They\u2019re working on installing <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/news\/speed-cameras-to-start-issuing-tickets-in-long-beach-by-fall-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">automated speed cameras<\/a> \u2014 a years-long process that safety advocates have repeatedly <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/news\/speed-cameras-long-beach-delayed-when-where\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">complained is taking too long<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Impairment was not believed to have been a factor in Monday\u2019s crash, police said.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach police say a high-speed, two-car crash in Bixby Knolls sent one of the vehicles careening into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141999,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-143053","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-long-beach","9":"tag-long-beach-headlines","10":"tag-long-beach-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143053","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=143053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}