{"id":236972,"date":"2026-03-26T04:06:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T04:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/236972\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T04:06:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T04:06:09","slug":"long-beach-woman-charged-in-hit-and-run-that-killed-bicyclist-in-atlantic-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/236972\/","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach woman charged in hit-and-run that killed bicyclist in Atlantic Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img width=\"909\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/imgonline-com-ua-FrameBlurred-D0EyeaINjJHK.jpg\" class=\"img-fluid mb-4 wp-post-image\" alt=\"67-year-old woman who was arrested in Atlantic Beach hit and run.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>A Long Beach woman faces criminal charges after striking a bicyclist in Atlantic Beach Tuesday morning and fleeing from the scene, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Erin Henry, 67, arrested after Nassau Police detectives \u2014 working together Long Beach Police \u2014 located her car.<\/p>\n<p>The crash occurred at 7:46 a.m. on Beech Street near Scott Drive. Henry was driving a 2019 Honda HR-V eastbound when she struck a man riding a bicycle, and then fled east on Beech Street, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The bicyclist, who has not been identified, was pronounced dead at the scene by authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Beech Street was closed in both directions between Mark Lane and Scott Drive for several hours.<\/p>\n<p>Henry is charged with leaving the scene of an incident causing a death. She was arraigned Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Top: Erin Henry of Long Beach (provided by Nassau Police)<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/GLI_LOGO-FAVICON-NOBG.png\" alt=\"Your Long Island news, delivered.\" width=\"180\" height=\"60\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                Your Long Island news, delivered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"description\">Subscribe to the GLI Newsletter \u2014 its free<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Long Beach woman faces criminal charges after striking a bicyclist in Atlantic Beach Tuesday morning and fleeing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":236973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[106978,12897,8296,161,131,133,132,106979],"class_list":{"0":"post-236972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-long-beach","8":"tag-atlantic-beach","9":"tag-bicyclist","10":"tag-fatal-crash","11":"tag-hit-and-run","12":"tag-long-beach","13":"tag-long-beach-headlines","14":"tag-long-beach-news","15":"tag-nassau-county-police-department"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236972","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=236972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}