{"id":230334,"date":"2026-03-21T18:03:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T18:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/230334\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T18:03:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T18:03:17","slug":"motorcycle-rider-dies-after-crashing-into-bicyclist-on-river-trail-long-beach-police-say-long-beach-post-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/230334\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcycle rider dies after crashing into bicyclist on river trail, Long Beach police say \u2022 Long Beach Post News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police say a motorcyclist was speeding down the San Gabriel River Trail when he crashed head-on into a bicyclist headed in the opposite direction on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Long Beach police said the deadly crash happened around 8:12 p.m., just south of where the trail crosses the 405 Freeway.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWitnesses stated that the motorcyclist was traveling at a high rate of speed without a helmet or lights,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p>Both the bicyclist and motorcyclist \u201cwere ejected from their vehicles and suffered critical injuries,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n<p>Bystanders rushed to give first aid, and the Long Beach Fire Department took each one to the hospital, where the motorcyclist died, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have not yet publicly identified the motorcyclist, saying only that he\u2019s a man. Police did not say what kind of motorcycle he was riding.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators don\u2019t think distracted driving or driving under the influence was a factor in the crash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say a motorcyclist was speeding down the San Gabriel River Trail when he crashed head-on into a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[131,133,132],"class_list":["post-230334","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\/230334","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=230334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230334\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}