Detectives Thursday were investigating whether excessive speed led to the death of a motorcyclist who crashed his bike into a pole in Long Beach.<\/p>\n
The fatal collision was reported at about 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in the area of West Shoreline Drive and Broadway, according to the Long Beach Police Department.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe preliminary investigation revealed a black 2003 BMW K1200 GT was traveling southbound on West Shoreline Drive and merged onto the Broadway off-ramp when the motorist lost control, went over the concrete barrier, and collided with a pole,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n
Long Beach fire Department personnel pronounced the man dead at the scene.<\/p>\n
Speed is being investigated as a possible factor in the crash, police said.<\/p>\n
The rider\u2019s identity was withheld pending positive identification and notification of loved one.<\/p>\n
Anyone who may have witnessed the crash was urged to contact LBPD Collision Investigation Detail Detective Efrain Pineda at 562-570-7335. Anonymous tips can be submitted through LA Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or www.LACrimeStoppers.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Detectives Thursday were investigating whether excessive speed led to the death of a motorcyclist who crashed his bike…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91293,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[174,350,12146,131,133,132,17410,4841],"class_list":["post-216987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-beach","tag-crash","tag-dies","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-motorcyclist","tag-pole"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216987","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=216987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}