{"id":174192,"date":"2026-02-12T00:08:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T00:08:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/174192\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T00:08:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T00:08:06","slug":"driver-arrested-for-deadly-long-beach-hit-and-run-that-killed-bicyclist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/174192\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver arrested for deadly Long Beach hit-and-run that killed bicyclist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A hit-and-run suspect was arrested on Wednesday for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/losangeles\/news\/long-beach-bicyclist-deadly-hit-and-run-redondo-avenue-second-street\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">hit-and-run crash that killed a woman<\/a> who was riding her bike over the weekend, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Christopher Bryant, a 40-year-old man from Long Beach, turned himself in to Long Beach Police Department officers at the city&#8217;s Public Safety Building for the crash that happened on Saturday, February 11 at approximately 4:45 p.m., according to a news release from police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bryant was booked for vehicular manslaughter and gross negligence, hit-and-run involving death\/great bodily injury and reckless driving, according to police. They said that his bail was set at $50,000.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, police said that Bryant was allegedly driving at a high rate of speed before he ran through a stop sign at the intersection of Redondo Avenue and Second Street, where his 2025 Hyundai Sonata collided with the bicyclist.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She was pronounced dead after being taken to a nearby hospital on Saturday. The victim still has not been publicly identified by authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He fled the scene on Sunday and was not located until turning himself in on Wednesday morning, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As their investigation continues, LBPD detectives ask anyone who knows more to contact them at (562) 570-7110.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A hit-and-run suspect was arrested on Wednesday for a hit-and-run crash that killed a woman who was riding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-174192","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\/174192","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=174192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}