One girl died and a second along with a woman were injured when an SUV reversed into them while they sat on steps in front of a Long Beach home on Monday morning, March 2, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The deceased girl, described by police as a toddler, was rushed to a hospital by the first two arriving officers but died, police said.<\/p>\n
Lt. John Hotchkiss of the Long Beach Police Department told OnScene TV, a freelance news organization that sometimes works with the Southern California News Group, that one officer drove while the other attempted life-saving measures on the girl.<\/p>\n
Police received calls to respond to the 400 block of Maine Avenue just before 11:30 a.m., police said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe pedestrians were sitting on the stairs of a building when they were struck by a vehicle attempting to reverse,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n
It appeared the steps led into a gated, single-story apartment complex.<\/p>\n
Alisa Hill, a nearby resident, told OnScene TV she heard a \u201cblood-curdling\u201d scream, ran downstairs and saw the woman pinned between the SUV and a wall, along with another child who had a gash on her shin.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was an infant or toddler involved too, but the first responding officer on the scene put the baby in the car and sped off real quick,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Long Beach Fire Department paramedics took the second girl and the woman to a hospital, Hotchkiss said.<\/p>\n
Hill said the SUV driver stayed and talked with police.<\/p>\n
She said the woman and children \u201cchill on the porch a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n
Detectives were on scene Monday afternoon, March 2, looking for witnesses and possible surveillance video that may have caught the collision, Hotchkiss said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One girl died and a second along with a woman were injured when an SUV reversed into them…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[7,723,138,131,133,132,137,100,136],"class_list":["post-201190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-california","tag-crime","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201190","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=201190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}