Long Beach, CA \u2013 Motorcyclist Injured in Crash with SUV on Pacific AvenueA woman was driving a Chevrolet Trailblazer in the southbound lane of Pacific Avenue when she attempted to turn eastbound onto 16th Street and collided with a motorcyclist heading northbound on Pacific Avenue.<\/p>\n
Long Beach, CA \u2013 A motorcyclist was taken to the hospital after colliding with an SUV early Sunday morning in Long Beach.<\/p>\n
According to the Long Beach Police Department, the accident was reported just after midnight on March 15 on Pacific Avenue near Pacific Coast Highway.<\/p>\n
A woman was driving a Chevrolet Trailblazer in the southbound lane of Pacific Avenue when she attempted to turn eastbound onto 16th Street and collided with a motorcyclist heading northbound on Pacific Avenue.<\/p>\n
The motorcyclist was reportedly riding without headlights. The bike ended up pinned beneath a parked car along the street.<\/p>\n
The rider was taken to the hospital with unknown injuries. The patient is expected to be OK.<\/p>\n
The driver of the SUV stopped and remained at the scene. She was not injured.<\/p>\n
Authorities said speed and alcohol are not believed to be contributing factors.<\/p>\n
Long Beach continues to see motorcycles overrepresented in its severe traffic data, a trend that mirrors California\u2019s broader 2025 finding that riders account for roughly 15% of all road fatalities. Local 2024\u20132026 reports from the Long Beach Police Department (https:\/\/www.longbeach.gov\/…\/safe…\/safe-streets-data\/<\/a>) identify Anaheim Street, Ocean Boulevard, and Redondo Avenue as high-risk corridors.<\/p>\n Data from the city\u2019s 2026 Safe Streets LB update indicates that unsafe speed is a primary factor in 36% of fatal motorcycle incidents, while impairment involved roughly 26% of riders in fatal crashes last year. To address these risks, Long Beach is utilizing its Vision Zero framework to target the \u201cHigh Injury Network,\u201d which consists of just a few major arterials where the majority of severe motorcycle collisions occur.<\/p>\n Seek Legal Help from a Motorcycle Accident Lawyer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long Beach, CA \u2013 Motorcyclist Injured in Crash with SUV on Pacific AvenueA woman was driving a Chevrolet…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":221960,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-221959","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\/221959","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=221959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}