{"id":230447,"date":"2026-03-21T20:30:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T20:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/230447\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T20:30:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T20:30:18","slug":"motorcyclist-killed-in-long-beach-crash-2-urban-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/230447\/","title":{"rendered":"Motorcyclist killed in Long Beach crash | 2 Urban Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A speeding motorcyclist who wore no helmet while driving his vehicle with no lights on was fatally injured in a head-on crash with a bicyclist in Long Beach, authorities said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Officers dispatched to the San Gabriel River Trail, south of the San Diego (405) Freeway, at about 8:15 p.m. Friday located the biker and bicyclist receiving medical aid from bystanders, the Long Beach Police Department reported.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics rushed the two critically injured men to a hospital, where the motorcyclist later died from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe preliminary investigation revealed that the motorcyclist was traveling southbound on the San Gabriel River Trail when he collided head-on with a bicyclist traveling in the opposite direction,\u201d according to a police statement. \u201cBoth parties were ejected from their vehicles and suffered critical injuries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWitnesses stated that the motorcyclist was traveling at a high rate of speed without a helmet or lights,\u201d according to the statement. \u201cImpaired and distracted driving are not believed to be contributing factors in the collision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information regarding the crash was urged to call the LBPD at 562-570-7355. Anonymous tips can be submitted to Crime Stoppers at 800- 222-8477 or visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/lacrimestoppers.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lacrimestoppers.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A speeding motorcyclist who wore no helmet while driving his vehicle with no lights on was fatally injured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230448,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[12119,131,133,132],"class_list":["post-230447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-crime-public-safety","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\/230447","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=230447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}