{"id":169786,"date":"2026-02-09T00:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T00:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/169786\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T00:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T00:18:08","slug":"hit-and-run-driver-kills-bicyclist-in-long-beach-after-running-stop-sign-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/169786\/","title":{"rendered":"Hit-and-run driver kills bicyclist in Long Beach after running stop sign, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hit-and-run driver allegedly struck and killed a bicyclist in Long Beach on Saturday afternoon after running a stop sign, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It happened just before 4:50 p.m. near the intersection of Redondo Avenue and E. 2nd Street, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longbeach.gov\/police\/press-releases\/traffic-fatality--redondo-avenue-and-east-2nd-street\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">news release<\/a> from the Long Beach Police Department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers say that they arrived and found a bystander who was trying to help the bicyclist. Long Beach Fire Department paramedics took the woman to a nearby hospital, where she was later pronounced dead. She has not yet been identified.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Investigators believe that the bicyclist was riding south on Redondo Avenue when she entered the intersection with 2nd Street and was struck by a 2025 gray Hyundai Sonata driving west.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police say that the Hyundai was speeding and did not stop at the stop sign before hitting the woman.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Hyundai Sonata fled the scene and was last seen traveling westbound on East 2nd Street from Redondo Avenue,&#8221; LBPD&#8217;s release said. &#8220;Speed is being investigated as a contributing factor to this collision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who may have witnessed the crash or knows more was urged to contact LBPD Collision Investigation Detail detectives at (562) 570-7110.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hit-and-run driver allegedly struck and killed a bicyclist in Long Beach on Saturday afternoon after running a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-169786","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\/169786","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=169786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}