{"id":217884,"date":"2026-03-13T08:52:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/217884\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T08:52:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T08:52:27","slug":"motorcyclist-dies-after-slamming-into-pole-during-crash-on-shoreline-drive-police-say-long-beach-post-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/217884\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist dies after slamming into pole during crash on Shoreline Drive, police say \u2022 Long Beach Post News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police say a motorcyclist was killed in a solo crash last night near the Long Beach sign where the 710 Freeway empties out into downtown.<\/p>\n<p>At about 7:23 p.m. on Wednesday, officers responded to a crash on West Shoreline Drive near Broadway, according to Long Beach police.<\/p>\n<p>The man was riding a black 2003 BMW motorcycle southbound on West Shoreline Drive when he merged onto the Broadway off-ramp, lost control and went over the concrete barrier before colliding with a pole, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The motorcyclist died at the scene, according to authorities. His name was withheld pending family notification. His age wasn\u2019t immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>Speed was a possible factor in the crash, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say a motorcyclist was killed in a solo crash last night near the Long Beach sign where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-217884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217884","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=217884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}