{"id":187665,"date":"2026-02-21T16:02:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T16:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/187665\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T16:02:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T16:02:26","slug":"4-killed-in-fiery-single-vehicle-crash-in-long-beach-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/187665\/","title":{"rendered":"4 killed in fiery single-vehicle crash in Long Beach, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KABC logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-kabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Saturday, February 21, 2026 2:07PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"4 killed in fiery single-vehicle crash in Long Beach, authorities say\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; Four people were killed in a fiery crash early Saturday in Long Beach, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Officers responded at 1:18 a.m. to a single-vehicle collision in the area of East Spring Street and Lakewood Boulevard, according to the Long Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Long Beach firefighters found four people inside the gray sedan and pronounced them deceased at the scene. They were not immediately identified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;It is unknown whether speed, distracted driving, or impaired driving were contributing factors,&#8221; the Police Department said in a statement. The investigation was ongoing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Lakewood Boulevard was closed in both directions between Spring Street and Willow Street. Drivers were urged to avoid the area.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saturday, February 21, 2026 2:07PM LONG BEACH, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; Four people were killed in a fiery crash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88251,131,133,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-187665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-88251","9":"tag-long-beach","10":"tag-long-beach-headlines","11":"tag-long-beach-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187665","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=187665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}