A man was fatally struck by an SUV when he ran into lanes of traffic in Long Beach, authorities said Saturday.<\/p>\n
Officers responded at about 8 p.m. Friday to the area of Del Amo Boulevard and Locust Avenue regarding an injury collision involving a pedestrian, the Long Beach Police Department reported.<\/p>\n
A 2023 Hyundai Tucson was going westbound on Del Amo when the pedestrian ran into the lanes of traffic and was struck by the SUV. Paramedics rushed the man to a hospital, where he later died from his injuries. The driver of the SUV stayed at the crash scene and cooperated with police.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt this time, speed, distracted driving, and driving under the influence are not believed to be factors in the collision,\u201d according to a police statement. \u201cThe identity of the decedent is being withheld pending notification of the next of kin by the Los Angeles County Department of the Medical Examiner\u2019s Office.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anyone with any information regarding the crash was urged to call the LBPD at 562-570-8477. Tipsters who prefer to remain anonymous can call Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 or visit lacrimestoppers.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was fatally struck by an SUV when he ran into lanes of traffic in Long Beach,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[174,410,55304,131,133,132,8711,9941,821],"class_list":["post-243647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-beach","tag-fatally","tag-lanes","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-running","tag-struck","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243647","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=243647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}