{"id":155776,"date":"2026-01-30T01:05:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T01:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/155776\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T01:05:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T01:05:06","slug":"man-arrested-in-2023-fatal-long-beach-traffic-collision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/155776\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Arrested in 2023 Fatal Long Beach Traffic Collision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 31-year-old man suspected of traveling at a high rate of speed in a fatal traffic collision three years ago has been taken into custody, police announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Ivan Olarte-Torres was arrested Tuesday at his home in Whittier and booked at the Long Beach City Jail on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter, with bail set at $50,000, according to the Long Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives made the arrest in connection with a crash that killed Roberto Rodriguez on Jan. 29, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded about 4:05 a.m. that day to the area of Magnolia Avenue and Hill Street following reports of a traffic collision with injuries, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators determined that a 1996 Toyota Camry was traveling southbound on Magnolia Avenue, south of Hill Street, when it was struck by a 2021 Hyundai Sonata traveling northbound at a high rate of speed in the southbound lanes. The impact caused the Camry to collide with several parked vehicles, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Rodriguez was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Olarte-Torres sustained critical injuries and was transported to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives determined alcohol or drugs were not factors in the collision, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding the collision was urged to contact LBPD Collision Investigation Detective Kelsey Myers at 562-570-7355. Tipsters who prefer to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 or visit lacrimestoppers.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 31-year-old man suspected of traveling at a high rate of speed in a fatal traffic collision three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[76330,2040,174,8197,1491,131,133,132,821],"class_list":["post-155776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-76330","tag-arrested","tag-beach","tag-collision","tag-fatal","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155776","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=155776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}