{"id":174372,"date":"2026-02-12T02:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T02:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/174372\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T02:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T02:26:09","slug":"hit-and-run-driver-who-killed-bicyclist-turns-himself-in-long-beach-police-say-long-beach-post-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/174372\/","title":{"rendered":"Hit-and-run driver who killed bicyclist turns himself in, Long Beach police say \u2022 Long Beach Post News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police say a 40-year-old Los Angeles man turned himself in today after initially fleeing the scene of a crash that killed a bicyclist Saturday afternoon in Long Beach\u2019s Bluff Park neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say Christopher Bryant was speeding behind the wheel of a gray 2025 Hyundai Sonata when he ran a stop sign at the intersection of Second Street and Redondo Avenue at about 4:40 p.m. Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Police say he hit a bicyclist who was traveling southbound through the intersection before continuing westbound on Second Street.<\/p>\n<p>Friends identified the slain bicyclist as <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/news\/hit-run-second-street-bicyclist-lori-ann-carreon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">54-year-old Lori Ann Carreon<\/a>, an occupational therapist who lived less than a block from the site of the crash. The impact of the collision was so forceful that it sent Carreon flying off her bike and smashing into a parked car\u2019s windshield, one witness said.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Bryant turned himself in at LBPD headquarters in downtown Long Beach and was booked into jail on suspicion of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence, hit-and-run involving death and reckless driving.<\/p>\n<p>He was being held on $50,000 bail, according to jail records.<\/p>\n<p>Carreon\u2019s friends have started pushing the city to be more proactive about protecting bicyclists and pedestrians. They said the intersection where Carreon was killed has <a href=\"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/news\/hit-run-second-street-bicyclist-lori-ann-carreon\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">been a hazard for years<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say a 40-year-old Los Angeles man turned himself in today after initially fleeing the scene of a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-174372","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\/174372","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=174372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}