{"id":224599,"date":"2026-03-18T01:56:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T01:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/224599\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T01:56:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T01:56:26","slug":"65-year-old-man-killed-in-crash-while-crossing-long-beach-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/224599\/","title":{"rendered":"65-year-old man killed in crash while crossing Long Beach street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 65-year-old man was struck and killed by a car while crossing the street in Long Beach last week, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The crash happened on Wednesday, March 11 at around 7:30 p.m. near the intersection of Anaheim Street and Redondo Avenue, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.longbeach.gov\/police\/press-releases\/traffic-fatality---anaheim-street-and-redondo-avenue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">news release<\/a> from the Long Beach Police Department said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Upon arrival, officers located a male adult pedestrian lying in the roadway between Redondo Avenue and Coronado Avenue,&#8221; the release said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics rushed the victim to a nearby hospital with serious injuries, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The man, who was identified as 65-year-old Long Beach resident Daren Duane Roland, died the next day, police said, noting that they were not notified of the death until Monday, March 16.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The preliminary investigation indicates that a 2011 Toyota Camry was traveling westbound on Anaheim Street towards Redondo Avenue when it struck a pedestrian walking northbound outside a crosswalk on Redondo Avenue,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n<p>The driver of the Camry remained at the scene, police said. They do not believe that speed, distracted driving or impaired driving were factors in the crash.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As their investigation continues, LBPD detectives asked anyone who may have witnessed the incident to contact them at (562) 570-7355.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 65-year-old man was struck and killed by a car while crossing the street in Long Beach last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-224599","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\/224599","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=224599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224599\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}