{"id":187816,"date":"2026-02-21T19:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T19:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/187816\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T19:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T19:16:07","slug":"fiery-long-beach-car-crash-leaves-four-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/187816\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiery Long Beach car crash leaves four dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Four people were killed Saturday in a fiery car crash near Long Beach Airport, and investigators have not yet determined the cause.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded about 1:18 a.m. to a single-vehicle collision in the area near Lakewood Boulevard and Spring Street, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Video <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/4-dead-in-fiery-single-vehicle-crash-near-long-beach-airport\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">broadcast by KTLA-TV<\/a> showed smoke pouring from a gray sedan on Lakewood Boulevard as it was engulfed in flames. A witness told the station that the car had smashed into a divider at the tunnel that passes underneath the airport.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters found four people inside the vehicle and pronounced them dead at the scene, according to a statement issued by the Long Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Police closed Lakewood in both directions between Spring and Willow streets in the immediate aftermath of the crash.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators have not released any information on the crash victims. They also did not provide any information on whether speed or impaired driving played a role in the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four people were killed Saturday in a fiery car crash near Long Beach Airport, and investigators have not&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[599,6577,350,41031,1776,3816,88315,71633,131,133,132,592,236,88316,16030,25485,5050,14383],"class_list":{"0":"post-187816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-area","9":"tag-authority","10":"tag-crash","11":"tag-direction","12":"tag-information","13":"tag-investigator","14":"tag-ktla-tv","15":"tag-lakewood-boulevard","16":"tag-long-beach","17":"tag-long-beach-headlines","18":"tag-long-beach-news","19":"tag-people","20":"tag-police","21":"tag-single-vehicle-collision","22":"tag-smoke","23":"tag-spring-street","24":"tag-video","25":"tag-willow-street"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187816","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=187816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}